Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: April 18, 1973

Topics

WorkHard WorkDisciplineCommitment

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John B. S. Haldane

SciencePoliticsPoliticalWellThan

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

Jeffrey Brown

WorkBalanceHelpSeriousMoreOut

When people talk about my charm or looks, it is very flattering. Of course, every woman likes compliments, but I don't take them too seriously.

Ana Ivanovic

WomanPeopleLooksSeriouslyTalk

Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'

Stanley Marcus

CourageSayWantTasteSellHow

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

Tony Abbott

StressI AmEnjoyExerciseRelease

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Tony Blair

ProgressNeverHumanBeenShaped

Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he plays the hits. But part of what makes him such an eternally fascinating star is that he lives in his own private purple world, even when he sets out to make the house quake.

Rob Sheffield

WorldRock StarYouHouseKnowRock

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

Rodney Crowell

MotherSheOverTellWouldAgain

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

Rory Bremner

FatherWishI WishLivedHeLonger

I would like to thank Wolfgang Schreiber for his successful work with Bentley and Bugatti and the consistent further development of the two brands.

Martin Winterkorn

WorkDevelopmentTwoSuccessfulLike

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

Jason Biggs

GirlMeCoolWishApplePie

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Debra Messing

CashKeysLipBalmPocketThen

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