40 Quotes by Kenenisa Bekele

It gives me a lot of motivation to achieve the double for the last time. It not only brings glory to my country but to myself. It's a wonderful opportunity.

I was expecting him to do what he did and go early, he's done it before so it didn't come as a surprise. It hurt - it was a hard race and he made me work with everything I had for the win.

The 3,000 meters record has stood for a long time.

I was not trying to save any energy for tomorrow's race. The short race is the tougher race and this was the one I was concerned about.

Today's race was tough because of the wind. The wind made it hard to break away and I needed every ounce of strength to pull away from the other runners.

There are a lot of people who would like to snatch the title from me. I think the short race is tougher than the long one because it requires speed and there are a lot of strong athletes, but I'm confident I can win.

There are many strong athletes and I'm sure they've trained harder this year. A lot of people would like to snatch these titles from me.

The race was very fantastic, ... Today, I had my brother with me. He did everything very good. Today, everything was perfect.

This was a great result for Ethiopia, but Tirunesh stole the show with her win.