Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.