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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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"I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger."
"Comport yourself with grace under pressure."
"Even the smartest and most successful of people will experience lower self-confidence occasionally, but the difference is that they deliberately shift out of it and refuse to stay there."
"It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right."
"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."
"If you can't forget about all the great pains you've endured, as many of us can't, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you've somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you've certainly kept growing, because of it all."
"What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed."
"People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough."
"You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance."
"You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting."
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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."
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
"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."
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
"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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