Quotes by Haile Gebrselassie

About Haile Gebrselassie:

Haile Gebrselassie is a retired Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete. He won two Olympic gold medals over 10,000 metres and four World Championship titles in the event. He won the Berlin Marathon four times consecutively and also had three straight wins at the Dubai Marathon. Further to this, he won four world titles indoors and was the 2001 World Half Marathon Champion.
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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

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

You lose the speed before the stamina.

Haile Gebrselassie

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

Haile Gebrselassie

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

Haile Gebrselassie

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

Haile Gebrselassie

If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

Haile Gebrselassie

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

Haile Gebrselassie

What is important is to win.

Haile Gebrselassie

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

Haile Gebrselassie

Athletics is in my blood.

Haile Gebrselassie

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

Haile Gebrselassie

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

Haile Gebrselassie

Correr es la mejor Medicina que existe

Haile Gebrselassie

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

Haile Gebrselassie

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.

Haile Gebrselassie

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

Haile Gebrselassie

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

Haile Gebrselassie

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

Haile Gebrselassie

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

Haile Gebrselassie

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

Haile Gebrselassie

Author Bio

  • NameHaile Gebrselassie
  • DescriptionEthiopian long-distance runner
  • BornApril 18, 1973
  • CountryEthiopia
  • ProfessionSportsperson; Marathon Runner; Long-distance Runner
  • AwardsBislett Medal; Princess Of Asturias Award For Sports