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Dan O'Brien quotes

Ocupation: Olympic athlete

Life: b. July 18, 1966

Birthday: July 18

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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

Topics: Morning, Mean, Gold

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It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Topics: Motivational, Athlete, Men, Olympic Medals, Gold Medals

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

Topics: Rocks, Get Better, Rolling, Decathlon

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

Topics: Knowing, Mad, Upset

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

Topics: Trying

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

Topics: Events, Matter, Decathlon

I call myself a chameleon.

Topics: Chameleon

You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!

Topics: Divorce, Single Life, Cost

We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

Topics: People, Major League, Bats

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

Topics: Thinking, Safety, Perfect

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

source: - Dan O'Brien (2007). “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, p.171, Random House

Topics: Writing, Winter, House, Remodeling, South Dakota

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

Topics: Communication, Athlete, Successful

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

Topics: Air, Trying, Events, Jugglers

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

Topics: Winning, Special, Gold, Olympic Medals, World Records

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

Topics: Baseball, Winning, Thinking, Little League Baseball

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

Topics: Distance, Athlete, Men, Sprinters

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

Topics: Littles, Culture, Decathlon

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

Topics: Shapes, Limits, Pushing, Personal Best

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

Topics: Fun, Athlete, Winning, Young Athletes

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

Topics: Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Pride

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

Topics: Thinking, Race, Important, Mixed Race

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Topics: Children, Pain, Way, Cried

I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.

Topics: College, Track, Fields, Decathlon

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

Topics: Cereal, Hype, Breakfast, Breakfast Cereal

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

Topics: Dream, Winning, Jail

I always know where the scissors are.

Topics: Single Life, Scissors, Knows

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