There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

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.

It had been a long time since i dared call anyone a friend. The concept was only theoretical to me now.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I did not lose myself all at once.

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.