78 Quotes by Daley Thompson

For kids it’s natural to be competitive.

It’s good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it’s taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

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

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

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don’t want to go back to the beginning again.