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Dan O'Brien

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

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

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"I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights."

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"I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off."

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"And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote."

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"This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously."

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"The key to winning is poise under stress."

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"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."

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"Fields are won by those who believe in the winning."

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"Swimming isn't everything, winning is."

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"When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric."

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"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."

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"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."
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"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."
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"If you never give up, you'll be successful."
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"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
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"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."
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"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
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"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
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"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
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"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
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