Top 93 Quotes by Greg Rutherford

I can't tell you how much everyone has worked so hard for me, as well as myself.

To put up with me, you have to be patient.

People assume that you need to run fast to get to optimum fitness, but the truth is endurance lifting makes you stronger and leaner.

I want to jump far all the time and go out there and win medals.

For a long time, I thought I'd be a physio if I wasn't a sportsman. At one point, I wanted to be an inventor, and I'd come up with little schemes.

The DNA showed I have a level of endurance in me which I never really realised, which makes sense.

I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that's enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.

I dabbled in football myself until the age of 14, but I didn't have as much love for the sport as I did track and field. I would never have been good enough to take it to the highest level.

I live in a beautiful village in the middle of the countryside, and being able to disappear off on my bike for a couple of hours two or three times a week is a wonderful way to relax.

Ultimately, I love the sport; I love doing what I do.