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

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

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.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.