Bryan Clay Quotes

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

I have a black lab named Luke.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

My life was very Japanese.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.