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You Quotes by Daley Thompson
- Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
- Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
- 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…
- 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.
- In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and…
- If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you…
- Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
- 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.'
- 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…
- If you're not in it you can't win it.
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