Since I achieved something, running has

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	"Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands." - -- Haile gebrselassie

Top 5 quotes from Haile gebrselassie

"Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty."
"My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'."
"What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me."
"At the World Cross-country Championships we had 30 athletes competing. This is amazing."
"I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really."

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