Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.

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.

I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.

I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.

When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today.

The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.

A gold medal at the Olympics is hard to top.

I feel I am promoting the sport well in Australia with what I'm doing on an international level.

I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.

From the perspective of everything I went through to have played in four NFL games, it was one of the best experiences of my life.