Decathlete Quotes & Sayings

The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points. — Caitlyn Jenner

I'm like a decathlete without the body. — David Hornsby

War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians. — Chris Hedges

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

I get all of my comedy from CNN. — Rob Corddry

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

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill

Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything. — Dan O'Brien

Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation."
"What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?"
"An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife."
Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked.
"Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong.
Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it.
"You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly.
"I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong. — Orson Scott Card

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. — Albert Camus

The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned. — Mason Cooley

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Life is filled with trapdoors. — Brad Meltzer

Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we're desperately hanging onto, that we don't want to see further eroded. — Darryl Pinckney

I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget ... to look ahead, not behind. — Dan O'Brien

IN WHICH THERE ARE MONSTERS AND CATS, WHICH IS TO SAY, VERY MUCH THE SAME THING — Jonathan L. Howard

Think of friends or family members who loved Jesus and are with him now. Picture them with you, walking together in this place. All of you have powerful bodies, stronger than those of an Olympic decathlete. You are laughing, playing, talking, and reminiscing. You reach up to a tree to pick an apple or orange. You take a bite. It's so sweet that it's startling. You've never tasted anything so good. Now you see someone coming toward you. It's Jesus, with a big smile on his face. You fall to your knees in worship. He pulls you up and embraces you. — Randy Alcorn

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events. — Michael Nyman

Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor. — Bill Toomey

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