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

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.

You are the ocean to my eyes.

The gain is not the having of children it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

the possession of power brings on madness.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

Oh, look at this. NBC/Wall Street Journal: "Thirty-eight percent of the American people say [Donald] Trump's comments about women disqualify him from being president."