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I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

~Daley Thompson

Topics: Am Avoiding Bit Concentrate Eat Food Junk Junk Food Kids Only Rest Slack Tend Time Vegetables I Am

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I don't even have my own computer.

~Daley Thompson

Topics: Computer Even My Own Own

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

~Daley Thompson

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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

Topics: Anything Best Coming Day Days Great Less Motivating Old Olympics Than Think World Would Years

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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.

~Daley Thompson

Topics: Achieved Any Anything Before Being Deserve Expect Five Getting Kids Like Lottery Money More Paid People Put Really Relatively Rubbish Serve Six Spend Treated Up Want Well Work Years You

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I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

~Daley Thompson

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I am only about winning and getting better.

~Daley Thompson

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I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

~Daley Thompson

Topics: Business Conditioning Corporations Doing Fitness Got Individuals Mainly Round Small Still Stuff Training Travel Where World

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

~Daley Thompson

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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

Topics: Application Bit Champion Greatest Lot Mental More Olympic Takes You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Athlete

Born: July 30th, 1958

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