Ashton Eaton Quotes

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

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

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

You never know what motivates you.

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

I guess the decathlon's never an easy walkthrough.

I always had the energy to learn new things and achieve more.