Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win.

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

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.