The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.
Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.
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.
I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.
If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.
It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.
My life was very Japanese.
The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.
No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.
If you can do it then why do it?
At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!