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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 wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
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"There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation."
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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"
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"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."
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"When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package."
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"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."
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"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."
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"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."
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"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
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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."
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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."
Confidence
"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning."
Winning
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
Work
"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
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
Pain
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
Man
"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."
Resilience
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
Being
"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
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