Football Player

I always knew one day fatherhood would be great, I just didn't think it would be this great.

I have a lot of things going for me, I try to be a well-rounded role model.

I'm definitely not a track guy playing football. I'm a football guy that just happens to jump really far.

No matter what the outcome is, as long as you pray to Him and be genuine - because He knows when you're genuine and when you're not - and maintain the faith, I think things will turn around for you. I know things will turn around for you. And ultimately, you will always be victorious when it's all said and done.

When the ball is in the air, my job is to catch it, no matter where it's at, no matter how it is, no matter how difficult or how easy, you've just got to make it.

It won't change that I'm an Olympian if you call me a football player, and it won't change that I'm an NFL player if you call me a track and field athlete.

I knew when I met Morgan that she was the perfect girl because she was in college, she was an athlete and we had the same morals and beliefs and I knew that she would be a great mom.

I've stayed sharp, basically through football workouts. I cater those workouts to track-specific things, so I don't lose the rhythm I've always had to keep football and track in balance.

I have definitely got more than a few pieces of cheetah in my wardrobe.

I hate missing practice and games, not being out here.

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.

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'm just blessed to be able to be alive, to be able-bodied and be able to play this game.

I don't want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I'm as fast on the field.

I chose to leave my wife at the hospital after prematurely birthing our first baby due to incompetent cervix, which resulted in a fatality, to play in a football game. I felt like I had to prove to my coaches and new team that I was dedicated to winning and I wouldn't let anything keep me from that goal, not even my family.

I always knew one day fatherhood would be great, I just didn't think it would be this great.

Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.

Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.

I have the track label on me. I'm the track guy. So I have to go above and beyond the expectations of what other people will limit their bodies to.

At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.