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

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.

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

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

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.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

I regularly sell out more in England than I do in America.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.