I would say 90 percent of the stuff we do is technical anyway. If you look at a two-hour training day, 12 minutes are probably spent running or gaining fitness.

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.

All food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.