Author: Haile Gebrselassie

Quotes

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

- Haile Gebrselassie

I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

- Haile Gebrselassie

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

- Haile Gebrselassie

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

- Haile Gebrselassie

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

- Haile Gebrselassie

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

- Haile Gebrselassie

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

- Haile Gebrselassie

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

- Haile Gebrselassie

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

- Haile Gebrselassie

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