When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

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.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely .

When it comes to ourselves, we often have a blind spot. That is, we fail to see ourselves as others see us. We fail to recognize our most obvious traits: our strengths, weaknesses, mannerisms.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.

If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.