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We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don’t want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You’re used to doing well and it’s difficult to give that up.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

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

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

Daley Thompson

Even if you’ve been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they’re interchangeable. You don’t have a feeling about them.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

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.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there’s more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

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.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

There’s no day when I don’t think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days – and be the best in the world. I can’t think of anything so motivating.

– Daley Thompson

Daley Thompson

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

– Daley Thompson

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