"The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them."

“I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.”

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

Source : "Haile Gebrselassie shares secrets of his success". Interview with Susannah Palk, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2011.

“Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.”

“Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.”

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”

“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.”

“Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.”

“When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.”

Source : "CHAMPCAR/CART: Michael Andretti Interview". Motorsport.com Interview, www.motorsport.com. May 17, 2000.