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Haile Gebrselassie

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When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#london #minds #our #race #record

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#disappear #i #know #me #promise

You lose the speed before the stamina.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#lose #speed #stamina #you

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#car #coach #find #i #me

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.


— Haile Gebrselassie


#commitment #discipline #everything #hard #hard work






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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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