Representing Great Britain Men's athletics Olympic Games Gold 1980 Moscow Decathlon Gold 1984 Los Angeles Decathlon World Championships Gold 1983 Helsinki Decathlon European Championships Gold 1982 Athens Decathlon Gold 1986 Stuttgart Decathlon Silver 1978 Prague Decathlon Bronze 1986 Stuttgart 4×100 m Commonwealth Games Representing England Gold 1978 Edmonton Decathlon Gold 1982 Brisbane Decathlon Gold 1986 Edinburgh Decathlon... Read full biography of Daley Thompson →
If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the... →
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their... →
I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of... →
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a... →
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'
Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
Representing Great Britain Men's athletics Olympic Games Gold 1980 Moscow Decathlon Gold 1984 Los Angeles Decathlon World Championships Gold 1983 Helsinki Decathlon European Championships Gold 1982 Athens Decathlon Gold 1986 Stuttgart Decathlon Silver 1978 Prague Decathlon Bronze 1986 Stuttgart 4×100 m Commonwealth Games Representing England Gold 1978 Edmonton Decathlon Gold 1982 Brisbane Decathlon Gold 1986 Edinburgh Decathlon...