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I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

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Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
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There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
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If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'
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Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.
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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 on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.
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To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time.
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I'm not stuck in anybody's body. I'm me.
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If I die... I'd be so mad at myself that I didn't explore that side of me.
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If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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Have an open mind and an open heart. I'm not this bad person. I'm just doing what I have to do.
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I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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