Greg Rutherford Quotes

My ambition from day one in this sport has been to become a world superstar.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

I don't want to be the country's best-kept boxing secret. I want to cross over from being a boxer on the back pages to the front pages and become the big superstar I deserve to be.

My career is over because I don't have the stage to perform where athletes get the proper respect.

I'm not getting recognized because I posed in a swimsuit edition of some magazine, but because of what I do on the field, and that's important to me.

To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.

I've won the Tour. But no, I don't feel I'm a celebrity.

I want to be known for my cricketing ability.

We have won laurels for the country in wrestling but still, in spite of winning medals, not many people recognised us.

Players such as Scholes and Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher have consistently performed at the top level and played hundreds of games. It's fantastic, I'd love that. But you never know what's round the corner.

I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.

There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.

I don't know how you can be an All-American in this country and not be a good basketball player.

I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.

I guess every athlete has in the back of his mind being good at a sport and making it big.

That's what defines the best athletes: being capable of showing up year after year at the highest level.

I'm honoured and delighted to be named the 'Irish Times'/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year 2014. This has been an amazing year for me and for Irish women in sport, and I would like to congratulate all the finalists in their respective fields who have excelled at major sporting events.

I have to keep performing well for club and country. That's what I always want to do. If I do that, then that extra media attention comes towards me.

I'm very proud that the world's top clubs showed an interest in me, including the very best: Real Madrid. My Madridista friends are all very happy.

There are no words to describe what it would mean making the Olympic team.