Quotes from Katarina Johnson-Thompson


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    I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.

    Regrets | Handle | Coming


    When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.

    Team | Athlete | Medals


    I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.

    Football | Goal | Goalkeeper


    I like to balance competing with studying. It's hard work at the moment, but it could be worse.

    Work | Balance | Moment


    I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.

    Good | Event | Score


    I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.

    Week | Train | Complete


    I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

    Performing | Addicted


    I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.

    Healthy


    I don't want to be someone else.


    I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.

    Goals | Achieving | Reason


    I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

    Change | Smile | Focused


    As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.

    Liverpool | Optimist | Eternal


    I can always go back to education.

    Education


    I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

    Chance | Rio | Medal


    I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

    Career | Athlete | Olympic


    Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.

    Move | Records | Radical


    Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.

    Reason | Sure | Happens


    Competing in London would be a dream come true.

    London | Dream | Competing


    Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

    Life | Face | Slap


    As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

    Talk | Wear | Soon


       

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