Decathlon Quotes

Decathlon Quote of the day

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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