You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.