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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."
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"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
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"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."
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"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."
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"You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain."
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"The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people."
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"Today I was rejected......I hate being rejected... SAYYYYYYYYYY MY FUCKING NAME "Bill"."
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"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."
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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."
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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."
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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"
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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 child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
Pain
"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning."
Winning
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
Man
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