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" I eat a lot of vegetables and salad. I put strawberries, pomegranate seeds, blackberries, and blueberries into shakes and add Greek yoghurt for a snack. I have this when I'm not training. "

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" I drive relatively fast - within the remits of the law, obviously - but I struggle with people who do stupid things on the road. I have a massive urge to shout expletives at them. "

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" It was when my American coach Dan Pfaff came over from the States in 2009 and started working with me that we really began to look at my diet. He decided I was eating too many carbohydrates, so I cut back on bread. Over the next year I lost weight and became leaner. "

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" I always start the day with a protein shake: protein powder mixed with water, peanut butter, and yoghurt to thicken it up. "

" I'm a bit of a history goon, and I love all that. Anything that's medieval-based up until, probably, the Tudor period and just after, I'm quite into. "

" My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books. "

" Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong. "

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

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" My team are incredible, and I have the most amazing parents and beautiful girlfriend in the world. "

" 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. "

" I'm excited by going 85 mph, head-first, down an ice track. "

" I've had 30 hamstring tears. "

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" If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise. "

" I have a real passion for anything medieval, which is why I love the drama series 'Game Of Thrones.' "

" I do a lot of things like running hills and larger amounts of reps in the gym. "

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" I do weights three or four times a week, and it has had an incredible impact on my confidence. "

" I'm never happy to settle. "

" I take my three dogs for long walks every day, and I use that time to talk myself through winning every major competition. "

" Even before I really started, no one said I would make it. But I always had belief. "

" 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. "

" My dad is a builder, and my mum's a nurse. They're just very normal people. "

" I now have five major titles, and not many athletes can say that. "

" I knew I was going to be a sportsman. "

" I wasn't jumping like Carl Lewis, but I still won an Olympic title. "

" 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 come into these competitions to win, not to get silver or bronze, so it is frustrating. "

" There are not many people around the world who can say, 'I get paid to jump into a sandpit.' "

" It's changed from one-hit wonder to 'Greg Rutherford wins events.' That's what I've always wanted, that level of recognition. "

" I don't think there are many long jumpers who can say they have jumped so hard that have lost their hearing. "

" I take magnesium to prevent cramps. A few years back, I suffered from hamstring tears, and part of that can be to do with muscle cramping, and then pushing the muscle at that point. I also take a fish oil supplement. "

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

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