If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it’s hard. Haile Gebrselassie Read Quote
My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me. Haile Gebrselassie Read Quote
I can’t change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation. Haile Gebrselassie Read Quote
I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people’s eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia. Haile Gebrselassie Read Quote
Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: ‘Do it. Come on. I have to do it.’ Haile Gebrselassie Read Quote
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. Haile Gebrselassie Read Quote
