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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.

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.

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

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

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?

I don’t think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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