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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.


Haile Selassie

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HAILE SELASSIE Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indi...
HAILE SELASSIE I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brou...
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HAILE GEBRSELASSIE Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all th...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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HAILE GEBRSELASSIE My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I wo...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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HAILE GEBRSELASSIE If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cann...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any pro...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in E...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And th...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had...
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HAILE GEBRSELASSIE Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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HAILE GEBRSELASSIE The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, b...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE If it happens, wonderful. If not, what can I do?. This is not my first competition. It's not my last...
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HAILE GEBRSELASSIE When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I am still chasing the world record but London will certainly not be the place.
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