Quotes by Ashton Eaton

The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are necessary.

It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.

I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.

I haven't seen kids in years who have holes in the knees of their jeans. Now you go buy jeans with holes in them.

My mom and I have been through a lot. But when you think about it, whose life is perfect? It is just really good because we did this together.

I can't remember when I wasn't running around doing some sort of a sporting activity.

I would say 90 percent of the stuff we do is technical anyway. If you look at a two-hour training day, 12 minutes are probably spent running or gaining fitness.

The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade? I notice a lot of things in general tend to follow that up-and-down trend.