"I think what my parents did was perfect.……" — Dan O'Brien
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
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12 Quotes by Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien has 12 quotes on this site.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting…
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It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men,…
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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
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I call myself a chameleon.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I…
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As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and…
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I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he…
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in…
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More Concerned Quotes
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the…
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial…
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If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute…
— Dave Barry
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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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