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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
Explore more quotes by Dan O'Brien
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
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