I don't think there are many long jumpers who can say they have jumped so hard that have lost their hearing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.
When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.
When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.
To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
Once I start shooting that jumper, I feel like I will be one of those guys that is hard to stop.
I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.
Hopefully, I can get multiple distances out there and re-establish myself as one of the best jumpers in the world.
One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.
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