Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay (born January 3, 1980) is an American decathlete. He was the 2008 Summer Olympic champion for the decathlon and was also World champion in 2005. Read full biography of Bryan Clay →
I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.
How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.
I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.
I have a black lab named Luke.
I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.
I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.
I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.
I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.
My life was very Japanese.
We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.
You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.
Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's... →
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a... →