Quotes from Katarina Johnson-Thompson

In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

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

We are all trying to achieve our dreams.

It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.

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

I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.

It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.

It's crazy because it's a British record and a personal best, but I wanted that 2 m. I cleared the 1.97 m. first attempt with space, so I think I could have done a little better.