I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

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

My life was very Japanese.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.