- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
For kids it's natural to be competitive.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
- Win
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not in it you can't win it.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
- Skills
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
- Defines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even have my own computer.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am only about winning and getting better.
- Fitness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020