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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
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I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
- Daley Thompson
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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.
- Daley Thompson
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
- Daley Thompson
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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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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
- Daley Thompson
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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.
- Daley Thompson
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
- Daley Thompson
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
- Daley Thompson
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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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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
- Daley Thompson
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When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
- Daley Thompson
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
- Daley Thompson
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
- 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
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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.
- Daley Thompson
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