25 Quotes by Sally Pearson

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There’s not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

I know who my dad is, I’ve met him a few times, but I don’t even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don’t even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn’t bother me because I don’t know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

It’s always, ‘Are you the runner girl?’ I say, ‘My name is Sally actually.’ I used to always get that at school as well, ‘Are you the runner girl?’ I’m not even the runner girl, I’m a hurdler.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I’m going over those hurdles in training.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don’t want to bring any new distractions into your life.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I’ve done that and I couldn’t be happier.

But I’m after medals more than anything. Championships don’t get taken away from you but records do, so I think I’d rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I’m still only 25 in 17 days.