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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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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
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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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"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."
"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
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"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
"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."
"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
"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."
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
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