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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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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."
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"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
"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."
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"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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"It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it."
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"If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless."
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"If you never give up, you'll be successful."
Success
"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."
Society
"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
"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
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
Parenting
"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
"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
"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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