Best Decathlon Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.”

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“I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.”

People Knows Found Lucky Decathlon

Author:Daley Thompson

“Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.”

People Boring Relate These Days Decathlon

Author:Daley Thompson

“The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.”

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Author:Daley Thompson

“It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?”

Hard Care Hurt Practice Plus It Hurts Who Cares Decathlon

Author:Bruce Jenner

“David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“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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Author:Dan O'Brien

“I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.”

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Author:Dan O'Brien

“The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.”

Matter Events Ten Just One Decathlon

Author:Dan O'Brien

“To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.”

Littles Culture Decathlon

Author:Dan O'Brien

“It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.”

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Author:Dan O'Brien

“The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.”

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Author:Bruce Jenner

“The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.”

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Author:Steve Ovett

“When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.”

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Author:Jack Canfield

“Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.”

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Author:Daley Thompson

“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 going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.”

Want Giving Trying Hurt Tough Convince Decathlon

Author:Bryan Clay

“I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.”

Thinking Decathlon

Author:Bryan Clay

“If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?”

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Book:Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential

Source: Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential

“I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.”

Let Me Decathlon

Author:Bryan Clay

“The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration.”

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Author:Ashton Eaton

“There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.”

Trying Next Perfect Events Like You Draws Satisfied Next Time Dissatisfied Decathlon

Author:Ashton Eaton