If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

I am only about winning and getting better.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.