Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

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.

Love knows the way because love is the way.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

The great put the little on the hooke.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.