Ashton Eaton Quotes
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I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.
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Rather than realizing immediate physiological gain, the challenge is more about reducing the mental attrition from the two days to maximize each event.
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It would be fantastic to spend your whole life trying to pursue something and then finally, at the last moment, you achieve it. You know, instead of getting it in the middle of the pursuit and spending the second half giving it meaning.
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As you get older and gain more experience, you're able to do multiple things. You don't necessarily have to focus so hard on your performance in order to have a good one.
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I haven't seen kids in years who have holes in the knees of their jeans. Now you go buy jeans with holes in them.
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My local newspaper, the 'Bend Bulletin,' interviewed me while I was at high school after I had just signed with the University of Oregon. I remember I wore a University of Oregon hooded sweatshirt, and they took a picture of me in the long jump pit. I was freezing!
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The first sport I played was baseball. I remember being on the Little League team and someone pitching the ball to me for the first time. I was ready to no longer hit the ball off the tee, and an adult pitched it to me underhand.
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When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.
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I am actually a huge supporter of the Canadian athletes, and they are all really nice people.
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The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade? I notice a lot of things in general tend to follow that up-and-down trend.
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From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
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I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.
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For me, I want 10 perfect events.
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I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.
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I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.
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From the time I started the decathlon, I've loved the event. I didn't know why. I still don't know why.
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I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
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I don't set goals. Competing with a number in your head can be limiting, and I don't know what my capabilities are yet.
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You see somebody on a football field make a great, athletic 70-yard run, but the athleticism is immeasurable. It's undoubtedly athletic, but compared to somebody else who did something else, how do you compare it? That's the great part of track and field. It's a test, but with results that you can compare to others.
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I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.
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I'm very happy to have set a world record in Tallinn. Estonians sure do love athletics and combined events!
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The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration.
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The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'
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I can't remember when I wasn't running around doing some sort of a sporting activity.