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

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• ‟ It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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.

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