Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Track and field has always interested me.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

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.

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

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

I literally did athletics my whole life.

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

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

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.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.

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 could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

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

The 100m is never stressful.

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.

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

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.