I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

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.

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 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.

I always know where the scissors are.

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.