I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.
Track and field has always interested me.
Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.
I have only ever done athletics. I was only average at school and I have never done any other sport.
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 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.
Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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.
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 literally did athletics my whole life.
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.
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.
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 like seeing those 300-pound women that toss those discus. I just feel like they're so scary. It freaks me out a little bit to know that there are women like that.
