Dan O'Brien Quotes

• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Morning, Mean, Gold

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Shapes, Limits, Pushing

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Divorce, Single Life, Cost

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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.

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  Motivational, Athlete, Men

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Rocks, Get Better, Rolling

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Knowing, Mad, Upset

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Prueba

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• I call myself a chameleon.

  Dan O'Brien

  Camaleón

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Dream, Winning, Jail

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• I always know where the scissors are.

  Dan O'Brien

  Single Life, Scissors, Knows

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Fun, Athlete, Winning

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• Probablemente sólo tendremos en cuenta a un puñado de individuos. Traeremos a gente que pueda acumular entradas o bateos, de modo que podamos calibrar su posición como posible jugador de las Grandes Ligas.

  Dan O'Brien

  People, Major League, Bats

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• Cuando empiezas a trabajar con alguien, intentas que tenga la misma mentalidad que tú tenías cuando tenías éxito, pero me di cuenta de que lo mejor que puedes hacer es darte cuenta de que no es como tú. Tienen una personalidad y una mentalidad diferentes, y tienes que averiguar qué es lo que mejor funciona en tu comunicación con ese deportista.

  Dan O'Brien

  Communication, Athlete, Successful

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Air, Trying, Events

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Winning, Special, Gold

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Writing, Winter, House

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

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Baseball, Winning, Thinking

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Distance, Athlete, Men

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Littles, Culture, Decathlon

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Thinking, Safety, Perfect

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

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  Events, Matter, Decathlon

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Pride

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Pensamiento, Raza, Importante

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

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  Children, Pain, Way

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  College, Track, Fields

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