Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

Track and field has always interested me.

I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.

If I had to be in the Olympics, I suppose I would do the javelin throw.

The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.

I literally did athletics my whole life.

I've got so many big gains to make in the javelin and the shot put. I know I'm not going to be winning the field in those events, but I need to do myself justice.

Track is my passion. I started playing at 4.

Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.

I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.

I think I always prefer the long jump, high jump, and javelin. I don't like the 400 metres and the pole vault except when I'm really in shape.

Top athletes are like warriors.

I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

When you play, of course you want to win, but the most important thing about pre-season is improving your fitness.

I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.

You make yourself tougher in the offseason.

Keith Jardine pushes me the hardest because we're in the same weight class and we get competitive with each other, we make sure we're in shape and ready to compete.

I'm used to big boys. I train with big boys all the time.

When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.