"I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Running Quotes #Real Quotes #Kids Quotes

“In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.56, Macmillan
“I'm a Lakers fan. Kevin Garnett is my favorite player of all time because of his passion for the game.”
“Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.”
“Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.”
“We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.”
“I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.”
“The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.”
“To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.”

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