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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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"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."
Man
"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning."
Winning
"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."
Dream
"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."
Gold
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
Man
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
Parenting
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
Pain
"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
Confidence
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
Being
"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."
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"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."
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"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."
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"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
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"Gold all is not that doth golden seem."
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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
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"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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"As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient."
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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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