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

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

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

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

I always know where the scissors are.

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.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.