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

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

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

I am only about winning and getting better.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.