Bruce Dern Quotes

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.

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.

I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.

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

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

I literally did athletics my whole life.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

I began with track and field because this is what I know.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

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.

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

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

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

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: 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've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.

I used to run 800 metres for the school.

Track is my passion. I started playing at 4.

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

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

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 always wanted to be a sprinter.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.