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.

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.

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

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

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

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.