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"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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"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."
Society
"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
"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
"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
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
Work
"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."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."
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Personal Development
"Do you ever feel like you have been stopped dead in your tracks? That you have fallen and can't get up? Or like you are stuck in a rut or wading in muck? Paralysis, inertia, and being stuck, can be disempowering and disabling. What is it going to take for you to restart your engines and get moving again?"
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"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."
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Personal Development
"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."
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Personal Development
"Do not give up. Be strong!"
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Personal Development
"Problems, obstacles and difficulties are in themselves not a sufficient reason for a person to suffer defeat. It is possible to overcome any obstacle."
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Personal Development
"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."
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Personal Development
"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."
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Personal Development
"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."
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Personal Development
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