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I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.

It's really all about your training. Whatever you train for, you'll be ready for.

As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while.

Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

I want my career to be judged by what I did on the field. I appreciate the honors.

I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.

Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.

I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.

In the year 2013, I fought six times. I fought four times in two-and-a-half months.

I think that Ben Askren, when he competed as a wrestler, he was an amazing athlete.

I missed a lot of important milestones in my children's lives to pursue this sport.

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio...

During the decathlon, I always think only of the next event and my personal record.

When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

I started competing on boxing, so I have my hands. I'm an O.K. wrestler, so why not?

I think T. J. Dillashaw and Demetrious Johnson - I'm a bad matchup for both of them.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

I enjoy wrestling. I enjoy the sport. I get to go against the world's best athletes.

Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.

You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.

I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

I can't remember when I wasn't running around doing some sort of a sporting activity.

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.

A wrestler loves to compete. At the end of the day, a wrestler just wants to compete.

I'm a fighter now. I'm officially a mixed martial artist. I'm not a wrestler no more.

I didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

I'd like to thank everyone for all their support and prayers. I'm so humbled by that.

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