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born 1977
Dwight Phillips (born October 1, 1977) is an American former athlete and a four-time world champion in the long jump.
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Hard work is the foundation for every athlete – if you don’t have that, you won’t be successful.
Hopefully, I left a great legacy and will be remembered like other big long jumpers like Carl Lewis.
I just want to have fun and continue to share the greatest sport on this earth.
It's not how you respond in victory, It's how you respond in defeat.
I will do indoors next year but this is probably my last outdoor season. Now I intend to turn things around.
Hopefully I can influence some of our younger generation of jumpers so they can jump far as well.
I am an optimistic person by nature. I will turn things around when I need to turn them around.
The sport never came as naturally to me as to some of my colleagues, so I understood the importance of being disciplined. I was a late bloomer.
I admire them all so much.
I would have liked to have had a better result but, never mind, I enjoyed my last competition and Zurich is an appropriate place to end my career,” reflected Phillips on Thursday night.
I have also been doing some corporate videos for some clients and that has been a lot of fun. I am starting another company that will manufacture apparel I am excited about that.
It wasn’t meant to happen. But hopefully I can coach somebody to that world record. I want to be a part of it in some capacity!
I came into this competition -- I wasn't even picked to make the final.
I really wanted that world record, I think that it got away from me at the Prefontaine Classic in 2009. I jumped my personal best into a negative 1.2 headwind.
However, my goal is to go out and win the nationals though, because it will be my last one; that will give me a lot of momentum going into the World Championships.
My legs were very weak. I guess just overcoming adversity, that's how I've been my entire life.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t gone as well as I had anticipated, but this year everything is about preparing for the World Championships and being ready when I get to Moscow.
You know, I haven’t competed in two years and when you return to competition, you always have high expectations. Sometimes it goes really well and sometimes it doesn’t go so well.
I've accomplished all the major accolades in winning the Olympics and World Championships. The only thing I'm really missing is the World record,” added the ever-smiling Phillips when asked to look back on his career.
I felt I could outwork anybody. I trained with all the greatest sprinters and that really helped elevate my performances.