There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

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

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

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!

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

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.