A Quote by Haile Gebrselassie

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. — © Haile Gebrselassie
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.
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.
Ideas, dreams, and goals morph as we experience life, so I'm not sure I can look at it like there's something I haven't yet achieved since I will always be striving for something more.
I was always, always running. I was running since I was small. And it is something I also learned from watching my father because he never gave up on the pitch and was looking to score the goal.
I meet a lot of characters in the islands, people who're running -- who're happier on a fishing boat than they are back home.When I first got down there,I don't know if I was running from a real bad heartbreak or running to something I thought would make me feel better.But since I've been spending time in the Caribbean, I've come to realize that I've got nothing to run from.
I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running.
Representing my country is an honor that nobody can ever take away from me and something that I am so proud to have achieved.
It is a long time now since I started running but I still remember running up and down hills and running to school as a kid. When I was young I would run for fun and I didn't know back then that this would be my career.
Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.
When I took up running, it was like meeting God himself. I have been running ever since.
I've started running since I had kids, and I've become one of those annoying people who likes running.
I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes in D.C.
The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
She said people found running to something easier than running from something.
Winning the Asian Games is about the most important thing I have achieved for my country, and seeing the delight on the faces of the people back home is something that will last with me forever.
[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.
I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I don't think very much of him as a man. Running away from the country that gave him everything and denouncing the country in addition is something you simply can't make any allowances for.
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