Fidel Edwards Quotes

My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

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 had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

We must have PE teachers and coaches who are well trained and qualified.

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.

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.

The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.

I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.

I literally did athletics my whole life.

I led the world the whole year until the trials. I was in Birmingham, U.K. Broke the meet record, had the meet won already, beat the 2012 Olympic champion in long jump that day. It was a big moment. On the last jump, I blew it. Blew my hamstring.

I have only ever done athletics. I was only average at school and I have never done any other sport.

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.

Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for. 'Tennis?' 'That would be a nada' 'Then what sport do you play?' Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, 'The horizontal tango.' ...Alex stands and says through chlenched teeth, 'Carlos let's talk. In private. Ahora.' ....Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. 'Daddy, do you know how to do the horizontal tango?

We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.

Much awkwardness ensued.

I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad. [But] if I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily. And I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment

Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals