Athletics Quote by Steve Ovett Download Open image “The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.” — Steve Ovett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athletics Bloopers Decathlon Entertaining Events Funny Inspirational Mice Mickey Mickey mouse Nine Running
The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity. — Rafer Johnson Copy Share Image
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be… — Ashton Eaton Copy Share Image
Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw?… — Caitlyn Jenner Copy Share Image
The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
During the decathlon, I always think only of the next event and my personal record. — Roman Sebrle Copy Share Image
The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration. — Ashton Eaton Copy Share Image
I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he… — Caitlyn Jenner 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 discover decathlon… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
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
My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National. — Steve Ovett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All… — Steve Ovett Copy Share Image
You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics… — Steve Ovett Copy Share Image
There is no path I follow. I feel as if I'm just drifting along, because although I can progress physically, through my training, mentally… — Steve Ovett Copy Share Image
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals — Ron Pickering Copy Share Image
If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds… — Dan Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
