I always know where the scissors are.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

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.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

I'm sure that it's not good not to be around people.

You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.