I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.

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

I'm not maximized yet.

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

I like playing around with the words

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.