Greg Rutherford Quotes

Even if you're 'the gay guy,' if you're winning events, you're still winning events.

I take the toughest challenges and fight against the best women. With that attitude, I will always be doing something big. I'm light-years ahead of my time.

There is always something to prove.

What I have to show, I show on the track.

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

I race to win, not to please people.

We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

I must use Ferrari to the maximum. My priority is to get results. Then we will see what happens.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

A guy that's undersized has to prove himself right away.

If you look right from the beginning of the season I've been very competitive.

I love racing and I love doing well.

I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.