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Luvo Manyonga Quotes

born 1991 South Africa

Luvo Manyonga (born 8 January 1991) is a South African track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump. He won the 2017 World Championship in London and the 2018 Commonwealth Games title in the Gold Coast, Australia.

South Africa
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Me trying to take another [drug] hit right now is death for me.

The long jump has given me so much in my life. It makes me smile even when life is difficult. No matter what difficulties and challenges I have faced in my life, long jump has kept me going.

I felt like there was nothing left for me.

All I’m prepared to say, is that no record should last for ever. I fully realise that this record is going to be improved at some stage by a young talented athlete. And I will be happy for whoever does so because that is how it works in athletics.

Sport can give you a natural high so, when I wasn’t in sport, I would look for something that would give me that, Whenever I came back to South Africa, I wanted that feeling.

I couldn’t walk for a week, That’s when the penny dropped for me. I saw my life flash in front of me when those guys were beating me.

The only thing left for me was death, because that’s the life of a drug addict. So I decided then that either I would kill myself or go on with my life. I needed to find Luvo Manyonga.

After my mum passed on, that’s when I decided my life was over. She was the pillar of my life. She kept me going. The wagon lost its wheels and everything started going south.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Luvo Manyonga (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.