Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

Haile Gebrselassie

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• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

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• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

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• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

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• I love anything to do with history.

  

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• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  

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• I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  

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• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  

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• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Money