Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" If you look at the skeleton, the start is very important. "
Greg Rutherford
Skeleton
Important
Look
Related Quotes:
" It will be good fun finding out what sport baby's good at; perhaps it will be something obscure. My parents were fantastic at taking me to training sessions and letting me try lots of different sports, so I want to do the same. "
Greg Rutherford
Training
Baby
Good
" The type of IBS I am prone to is the constipation type, where I get trapped wind and can get sharp painful spasms in my intestines as well as having sluggish bowels. "
Greg Rutherford
Well
Painful
Get
" My team are incredible, and I have the most amazing parents and beautiful girlfriend in the world. "
Greg Rutherford
World
Beautiful
Team
" I wasn't jumping like Carl Lewis, but I still won an Olympic title. "
Greg Rutherford
Lewis
Won
Title
" Fruit is carb-based, and I limit carbs when training hard. "
Greg Rutherford
Carbs
Training
Fruit
" People assume that you need to run fast to get to optimum fitness, but the truth is endurance lifting makes you stronger and leaner. "
Greg Rutherford
Fitness
Truth
People
" It would be pretty special if I could win two Olympic gold medals, one at the Summer Games and one from the Winters, so I'm going to give it a real go. "
Greg Rutherford
Win
Games
Gold
" Being in a scenario where you're thinking, 'I can't do what I want to do due to the financial burden that comes with some of it,' makes you think, 'Well, I could go and do an after-dinner speech every night.' I'd probably earn more than I could in track-and-field. But that's a dangerous scenario to get yourself into. "
Greg Rutherford
Thinking
Speech
Night
" I've not received any major sponsorship deals or anything else. "
Greg Rutherford
Sponsorship
Else
Deals
" Although 8.25 isn't very big, it's good to be the best of Europe again. "
Greg Rutherford
Very
Europe
Good
" I haven't actually checked my family tree, but Rutherford is a very old Scottish name, so I've probably got Scottish genes a few generations back. "
Greg Rutherford
Back
Old
Family
" I was persuaded to see 'The Muppets' by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half. "
Greg Rutherford
Boring
Friend
Half
" 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. "
Greg Rutherford
Time
Long Time
Thought
" I think the first time baby recognises me and smiles is going to be one of the most amazing times of my life, to be honest. "
Greg Rutherford
Think
Amazing
Baby
" 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. "
Greg Rutherford
Age
Never
Myself
" Lolo Jones came up to me and said, 'Well done, Greg,' and I don't think I've ever spoken to her in my life. "
Greg Rutherford
Me
Life
Think
" During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life. "
Greg Rutherford
Rest
Bear
You
" I'm a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I've made some psychedelic birthday cakes. "
Greg Rutherford
Myself
Classic
Jazz
" I always start the day with a protein shake: protein powder mixed with water, peanut butter, and yoghurt to thicken it up. "
Greg Rutherford
Day
Peanut Butter
Always
" I was very into football in my early teens and spent six months with Aston Villa, but I never really got further than having trials. I'm also into ice hockey. "
Greg Rutherford
Never
Trials
Football
" I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me. "
Greg Rutherford
Me
Not Good Enough
I Am
" Even before I really started, no one said I would make it. But I always had belief. "
Greg Rutherford
Said
Started
Always
" I was that ginger kid who always wanted people to like him. It's hard, and you've got a big chip on your shoulder for a long time. "
Greg Rutherford
Time
You
Kid
" 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. "
Greg Rutherford
World
Only
People
" It's changed from one-hit wonder to 'Greg Rutherford wins events.' That's what I've always wanted, that level of recognition. "
Greg Rutherford
Wonder
Recognition
Events
" Ultimately, you've got to answer your critics on the track, and I am very much hoping 8.41m is acceptable for people. "
Greg Rutherford
I Am
You
Answer
" I now have five major titles, and not many athletes can say that. "
Greg Rutherford
Athletes
Titles
Say
" Me and my brother just used to fight all the time; then my sister came along, and it was all about the little girl in the house. We'd always eat dinner together as a family. "
Greg Rutherford
Brother
Time
Me
" I'm never happy to settle. "
Greg Rutherford
Settle
Never
Happy
" Running up a steep hill or up steps are fantastic ways of building explosive strength. "
Greg Rutherford
Strength
Building
Running