I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win.

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

I don't even have my own computer.

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

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

On the road to success some will always expect tragedy ... ditch your doubts and experience success with Cosmic Ordering.

You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem

My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone,  for reasones unknow to me.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.