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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."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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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."
Pain
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
Man
"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
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
Being
"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
"If you never give up, you'll be successful."
Success
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
Parenting
"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."
Society
"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."
Gold
"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning."
Winning
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