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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic... →
Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream... →
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
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