Daley Thompson Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Kids, Years, People

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• I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

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  People, Answers, Want

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

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  Lying, Tape

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• I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

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  People, Lucky, Found

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• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

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  Men, Years, Black

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• 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.

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  Kids, Vegetables, Junk

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• 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.

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  Doctors, Years, Long

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• 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.

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  Motivation, Heart, Thinking

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

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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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• 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.'

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  Weight, Shots, Stadiums

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• 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.

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  School, Kids, Two

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• I am only about winning and getting better.

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  Winning, Get Better

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• 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.

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  Training, World, Corporations

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• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

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  Football, Kids, Hockey

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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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• 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.

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  Kids, Years, People

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

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• For kids it's natural to be competitive.

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  Kids, Natural

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• The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

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  Athlete, Long, People

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• Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

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  Games, Community, World

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• When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

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  Motivational, Sports, Country

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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