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1. "If you're not in it you can't win it." ~ Daley Thompson
2. "It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know." ~ Daley Thompson
3. "Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them." ~ Daley Thompson
4. "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." ~ Daley Thompson
5. "Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds." ~ Daley Thompson
6. "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
7. "Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership." ~ Daley Thompson
8. "If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played." ~ Daley Thompson
9. "In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for." ~ Daley Thompson
10. "When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours." ~ Daley Thompson
11. "Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one." ~ Daley Thompson
12. "But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it." ~ Daley Thompson
13. "Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities." ~ Daley Thompson
14. "Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it." ~ Daley Thompson
15. "For kids it's natural to be competitive." ~ Daley Thompson
16. "Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest." ~ Daley Thompson
17. "I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools." ~ Daley Thompson
18. "I am only about winning and getting better." ~ Daley Thompson
19. "I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year." ~ Daley Thompson
20. "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 until they're 21 or 22." ~ Daley Thompson
21. "I don't even have my own computer." ~ Daley Thompson
22. "I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it." ~ Daley Thompson
23. "I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't." ~ Daley Thompson

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