Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

I always know where the scissors are.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.

The good old days are now.

I look for the kind of text that doesn't look like the writer I'm considering. Plutarch is a great example.

Health to me is an overall mind, body, and kind of spirit thing.

Grief is a circular staircase.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards.

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.