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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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"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."
"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."
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
"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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"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory."
"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."
"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."
"Pain is the University of Life."
"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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