"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."

Athletes, Country, Running

214

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Athletes quotes

"I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012."

Linford Christie, British Athlete

Athletes,

"Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes."

Charles W. Pickering, American Judge

Athletes, Boxing, Fans, Integrity

"I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

Athletes, Disease, Fish, Oil

"We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star."

Linford Christie, British Athlete

Athletes, Coaches, Country

"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."

Shannon Miller, American Athlete

Athletes, Games

"That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes."

Martina Hingis, Czechoslovakian Athlete

Athletes, Jealousy, Reason, Training

"I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation."

Bob Costas, American Celebrity

Athletes, Opinion

"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Athletes, Body

"My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet."

Edwin Moses, American Athlete

Athletes, Training

"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."

Armstrong Williams, American Journalist

Athletes, Perfection

Explore more quotes by Haile Gebrselassie

"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."

Childhood

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

Sports

"That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa."

Learning

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

Sports

"You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model."

Winning

"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."

Books

"He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me."

Family

"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."

Nation

"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."

Work

"At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people."

Power