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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Haile Gebrselassie
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: April 18
Athletics Competitor
Long-Distance Runner
Marathon Runner
Olympic Athlete
Asela
Haile Gebrselassie
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What is important is to win.
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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.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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I want to go down in history.
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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
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In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
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I love running and I will always run.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
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I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
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Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.
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When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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