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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

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

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!

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.

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

I always know where the scissors are.

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

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.

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

When profound questions are asked of the heart, the answers are best kept to yourself.

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

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

After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

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

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

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

If you never give up, you'll be successful.