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Haile Gebrselassie

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If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#cannot #damaged #fix #fixed #hard

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#beginning #championship #crazy #just #keep

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#duty #else #i #invest #like

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#kind #life #life is a #sort #struggle

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'


— Haile Gebrselassie


#come #high #i #like #official

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#just #me #running #sensible #think

Schooling is so important.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#schooling

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#athletes #competing #country #difficult #even

What is important is to win.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#win

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#efforts #give #i #jog #just






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Did you know about Haile Gebrselassie?

His problems continued at the NYC Half Marathon where he pulled up mid-race visibly uncomfortable in his running. With four laps to go (8:40. On 26 September he suffered a double setback when he dropped out of the Berlin Marathon (again suffering from respiratory difficulties of exercise-induced asthma) and saw his world records for 30 kilometers and the marathon broken by the man with whom he had been duelling Patrick Makau.

He won two Olympic gold medals over 10000 metres and four World Championship titles in the event. He broke 61 Ethiopian National Records ranging from 800 meters to the marathon set 27 world records and is widely considered one of the greatest distance runners in history.

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