As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

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

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

I always know where the scissors are.

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.

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

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

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

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 gold medal.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.

Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

All isms end in fascism.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.