Dan O'bannon Quotes

Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything. — Dan O'Brien

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning. — Dan O'Brien

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race. — Dan O'Brien

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

Oh come on'P.O.E.T.S.'? 'piss.off.early.tomorrows.saterday.' the weekend approches people! — Dan Abnett

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas. — Dan Brown

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa — Dan Buettner

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot. — Dan Harmon

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful. — Dan O'Brien

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. — Bill O'Reilly

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

Your mind is a wonderful tool for creating what your soul wants. Use the tool, don't let it use you. — Dan O'Donnell

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove — Dan Skinner

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. — Dan O'Brien

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture. — Dan O'Brien

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career. — Dan Abrams

I always know where the scissors are. — Dan O'Brien

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

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. — Dan O'Brien

When profound questions are asked of the heart, the answers are best kept to yourself. — Dan O'Brien

We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters. — Dan O'Neill

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy. — Dan O'Neill

You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it! — Dan O'Brien

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. — Dan O'Brien

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

Yes, but everybody else gets more than us. — Dan O'Bannon

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

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

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

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. — Dan O'Brien

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

If you never give up, you'll be successful. — Dan O'Brien

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