A biography for Armand Duplantishasn’t been written yet.
“I've always tried to not put a limit on myself. There are endless possibilities.”
“If I go into years only thinking about medals I'm missing the whole meaning of what I've always been trying to do, which is trying to push myself and push the barriers of what is possible.”
“I want to break the world record, win Olympic gold and win World Championship gold.”
“I like putting on a show and everything else just works out.”
“I really do have the golf bug. I'm an addict. It's such a hard but easy game to love.”
“I can jump in front of a million people and be fine. I know what I'm doing. In fact, the more people watching me the better.”
“Each world record feels like it brings something a bit different out of me.”
“Going over 6.20m for the first time, it's hard to explain. It's something that you can only dream of.”
“It's the hugest platform of athletics and I dream of a world record at the Olympics. One jump can change a lot of things in someone's life.”
“There's always room to improve.”
“Ever since I started vaulting in my backyard, when I was in diapers, I wanted to be the best that's ever lived - to break the world record.”
“I know I'm capable of great things. I could jump really high and break world records and push boundaries that no man has gone into.”
“My father might have got me to 5.80 m, but I definitely give just as much credit, and maybe even more, to my mother, who got me to 6.00 m.”
“At the end of the day it's just pole vault. I try not to over calculate.”
“I can only be who I can be. I can't be Usain Bolt, we're different people and do different events, so it's hard to compare us.”
“I'm gonna try and take pole vaulting as high as I can. I want it to be as popular as it can be.”
“Where my mom comes from, you can't have that big of a personality or be cocky or think you're better than anyone else. My dad grew up in New Orleans. It's a little bit different.”
“When I was 13 I played baseball the whole summer. I never touched a pole vault pole.”
“Sport works that way, once someone moves on new stars step up and that is always the case.”
“That's a pretty big advantage to this journey that I've been able to have, is that I was able to start at such a young age because my father built a setup and I was able to build a technique from 3 years up to now. Without the backyard, I'm not whatever I am today. I knew that none of my classmates were pole vaulting.”