More From Haile Gebrselassie
- "I can’t change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation."
- "What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can’t work out another route. You’ve just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me."
- "My father thought sport was something fun – he didn’t know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: ‘Good, you can support not just yourself but me too’."
More In Famous
- "Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement."― Maggie Gallagher
- "I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."― Ani DiFranco
- "I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler."― Jeremy Bulloch