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The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.

I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

I had a great season and truly enjoyed competing around the world - from Monaco, where I managed to establish a world record, to Beijing, where I finally captured my first world outdoor title.

I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.