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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.

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

Daley Thompson

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

Daley Thompson

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

Daley Thompson

I don't even have my own computer.

Daley Thompson

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

Daley Thompson

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

Daley Thompson

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Daley Thompson

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

Daley Thompson

I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

Daley Thompson

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

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Daley Thompson

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

Daley Thompson

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 a feeling about them.

Daley Thompson

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

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

Daley Thompson

If you're not in it you can't win it.

Daley Thompson

I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

Daley Thompson

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

Daley Thompson

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

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

Daley Thompson

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

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

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

Daley Thompson

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.'

Daley Thompson

Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

Daley Thompson

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

Daley Thompson

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Daley Thompson

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

Daley Thompson

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Daley Thompson

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

Daley Thompson