Jessica Ennis-Hill Quotes

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

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

I can do a lot of things that other fighters can't.

What I do in long jump and track and field, it definitely correlates with what I do as a receiver. With being fast and being explosive and putting my foot down. It's the same mechanics that I use in football and track.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

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

I don't have a sprinter's body.

I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that's something I had to work really hard at.

How would you like to find out how good my right is?

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

I'm a really fast runner. No one can catch me - I'm quick.

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

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

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

I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.

Racing is very physical.

I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as fast as possible.

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.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

I'm developing more as a welterweight and becoming a better fighter.

Jacobs was a very good fighter and gave me good learning experience going 12 rounds.

I haven't just got a fight IQ - and I'm clever. I've got that power. I've got that movement. I've got that timing.