"I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best."

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"I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best."

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"This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs."

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"I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck."

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"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge."

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"Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty."

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"I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner."

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