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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.

~Daley Thompson

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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.

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

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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.

~Daley Thompson

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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Athlete

Born: July 30th, 1958

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