If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

I think I will never stop working with music; it has become a part of who I am.