If You Are A Really Good Marathoner,

You Know The Marathon In My Country Is Just Exceptional. It's Like Soccer In England. If England Win The World Cup And Ethiopia Win The Marathon - It's The Same.

Life Is A Kind Of Struggle. Life Is A Sort Of Fight.

Many People Know That Ethiopia Is Poor. When I Break A World Record, Maybe People Get To Know Something Else About Ethiopia, Something Good. We Can't Make Planes Or Cars, We Don't Have The Materials. We Do What We Can.

Some People Start A Sport Just To Reduce Weight, Or Some Say, 'my Doctor Ordered Me To Run And Do Exercise', And For Others, They Run For Completely Different Benefits. But It Is Not Like That With Sport. We Need To Eat, We Need To Rest, But Also We Need To Run.

He Was Not A Runner, My Father, But He Was Quick. I Always Remember It Was Very Difficult To Escape From Him When He Was Angry. If He Wanted To Beat Us He Would Always Catch Us. Even Me, He Could Always Catch Me.