Daley Thompson Quotes

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

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  Teamwork, Sports, Good Team

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

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  Winning, Thinking, Guy

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

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

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  Skills, Weakness, Favour

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

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  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

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  Sports, Real, Hard Work

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• 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.

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  People, Quality, Facts

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

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  Leadership, Want, Slow Down

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

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  Inspirational, Funny, Girlfriend

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• I don't even have my own computer.

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  Computer, My Own

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• During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Years, Would Be

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• 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.

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  Athlete, Games, Dining

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

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  Ambition, Champion, Different

  "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2012.

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

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  Sports, People, Mind

  Interview with Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Champion, Forethought, Application

  "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 13, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Fun, Dark, Opposites

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• Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

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  Kids, Made, Situation

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• It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

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  People, Easy, Difficult

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• 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.

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  Athlete, People, Feelings

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• 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.

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  Sports, Want, Firsts

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• I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

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  School, Ambassadors

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• 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.

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  Player, Tennis, Personality

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• 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.

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  Regret, Eight, Years

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• Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

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  People, Boring, These Days

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