Daley Thompson

During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the…

— Daley Thompson

I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a…

— Daley Thompson

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit…

— Daley Thompson

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably…

— Daley Thompson

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

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

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

If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and…

— Daley Thompson

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of…

— Daley Thompson

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in…

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I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

— Daley Thompson

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can.…

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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,…

— Daley Thompson

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

— Daley Thompson

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who…

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I am only about winning and getting better.

— Daley Thompson

There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable.…

— Daley Thompson

If you're not in it you can't win it.

— Daley Thompson

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

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my…

— Daley Thompson

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

— Daley Thompson

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

— Daley Thompson

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

— Daley Thompson

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

— Daley Thompson

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