Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

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

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

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

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

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.