The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
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… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing,… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
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… — Daley Thompson Copy Share
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year. — Daley Thompson Copy Share
I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't. — Daley Thompson Copy Share
In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth… — Daley Thompson Copy Share
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate… — Daley Thompson Copy Share
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… — Daley Thompson Copy Share
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… — Daley Thompson Copy Share
But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it. — Daley Thompson Copy Share
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills. — Daley Thompson Copy Share
