I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.
I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.
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.
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.
Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life
I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.