Daley Thompson

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

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

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.