Greg Rutherford 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.

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

This is the home of hurdling, and the Americans are the kings of the event.

I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.

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.

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

I know I'm a dog. I'm a beast especially when it comes to long jump.

I led the world the whole year until the trials. I was in Birmingham, U.K. Broke the meet record, had the meet won already, beat the 2012 Olympic champion in long jump that day. It was a big moment. On the last jump, I blew it. Blew my hamstring.

At cricket, I was mainly a bowler and tried to bat. I hit the odd four or six and then got out! In athletics, I was mainly triple jump and 200m.

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

When I first got the call from my manager asking if I'd ever heard of Jesse Owens, I recognized the name, looked him up, and was blown away by his story.

Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.

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.

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

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

I think I was in the most historical and golden era of track and field.

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

I've got to do Gotzis at least once.

In England I played everything - swimming, athletics, football, rugby, badminton, cricket - all of that stuff. I was in the first teams for all the sports at Brighton, played on the wing in rugby, and ran 100m, 200m, 400m, and did long jump and even the javelin at one point. In the States I did a bit of track, but mainly I was there for the boxing.

I don't know much about the history of track and field, but I know Gail Devers.

Hopefully, I can get multiple distances out there and re-establish myself as one of the best jumpers in the world.

As I grew into my body, high jump chose me.