Daley Thompson frases

• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

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  Teamwork, Sports, Good Team

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• The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win.

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  Winning, Thinking, Guy

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• I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

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• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

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  Skills, Weakness, Favour

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• What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

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  People, Quality, Facts

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• When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

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  Inspiración, Divertido, Hombres

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• Si trabajas duro en la vida real, la gente tiende a interponerse en tu camino, ya sea por inercia o por prejuicios, y te impiden conseguir cosas. Es lo peor de la vida real comparado con el deporte, donde en general tienes lo que te mereces: si eres el más rápido, ganas; no se juega a otra cosa.

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  Sports, Real, Hard Work

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• I don't even have my own computer.

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  Computer, My Own

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• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Girlfriend

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• If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

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  Leadership, Want, Slow Down

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• During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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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.

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  Champion, Forethought, Application

  "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 13, 2012.

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• Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

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  Kids, Made, Situation

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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.

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  Thinking, Years, Would Be

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• Tengo mentalidad de ganador. Fui por primera vez a los Juegos Olímpicos cuando tenía 17 años, tres semanas después del bachillerato, y recuerdo estar sentado en un comedor lleno de los mejores atletas del mundo.

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  Athlete, Games, Dining

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

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  Ambition, Champion, Different

  "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2012.

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• Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

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  Sports, People, Mind

  Interview with Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

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  Fun, Dark, Opposites

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

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  People, Easy, Difficult

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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.

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  Athlete, People, Feelings

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• En el deporte, si quieres ser el mejor tienes que competir contra los mejores - Preferiría haber quedado décimo y ser juzgado contra todo el mundo que quedar primero y ser juzgado sólo contra unos pocos.

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  Sports, Want, Firsts

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• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

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  Athlete, Careers, People

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• I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

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  School, Ambassadors

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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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  Player, Tennis, Personality

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• Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

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  Doctors, Years, Long

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