"All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running."

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Source : "Haile Gebrselassie: 'In long distance, you have to be patient'". Interview With Adharanand Finn, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2013.

Haile Gebrselassie

#Running Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Athlete Quotes

“Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.”
“I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.
“My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
“Some sleep too much....Nowhere do the scriptures say, 'Thou shalt sleep eight hours.' Nor do they say, 'Retire early unless you happen to be a night person.' There must be an excellent reason for the injunction to retire and arise early. ...You will profit by this counsel if you heed it...”
“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.”
“Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.”
“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”

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