Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win.

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

I don't even have my own computer.

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

Now you have kids that say, 'I wanna be Torii Hunter one day.' Man, I love that.