Liu Xiang Quotes

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.

Track and field has always interested me.

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 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.

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

I literally did athletics my whole life.

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

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

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

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

In England I played everything - swimming, athletics, football, rugby, badminton, cricket - all of that stuff. I was in the first teams for all the sports at Brighton, played on the wing in rugby, and ran 100m, 200m, 400m, and did long jump and even the javelin at one point. In the States I did a bit of track, but mainly I was there for the boxing.

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 don't know much about the history of track and field, but I know Gail Devers.

It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.

The 200 m. is the event I want to get better at.

I used to run 800 metres for the school.

Track is my passion. I started playing at 4.

At cricket, I was mainly a bowler and tried to bat. I hit the odd four or six and then got out! In athletics, I was mainly triple jump and 200m.

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

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

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.