Following is our list of the most famous decathlon quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational decathlon quotes. Hopefully, these decathlon quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your decathlon knowledge!
The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres. — Steve Ovett
The Centenarian Decathlon framework helps plan physical aspirations for later decades of life. — Peter Attia
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else. — Jim Thorpe
The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon. — Fred Lebow
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. — Terry Pratchett
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. — Pierre de Coubertin
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman — Chrissie Wellington
The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing. — Chuck Noll
I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever. — Victoria Pratt
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. — Jesse Owens
Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best. — Bryan Clay
It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts? — Bruce Jenner
If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed? — Bruce Jenner
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills. — Daley Thompson
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. — Bruce Jenner
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 dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10. — Ashton Eaton
And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better. — Dan O'Brien
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me. — Dan O'Brien
The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration. — Ashton Eaton
I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field. — Dan O'Brien
David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon. — Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
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