Ashton Eaton Quotes

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

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

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.

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

It doesn't matter which year a player is born in, whether you are 19 or 20 - you have to be agile. You have to accept your shortcomings.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.

I was well aware of my limitations as a football player and knew that I needed every edge I could possibly get in order to compete. A big part of that was to be as precise as I could and make as few mistakes as possible because I figured that was the only way I could survive.

There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.

I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

You can deal with a little pain. It's just about making sure you can throw the ball good enough to go out there and help your team.

No one works harder at inspiring athletes all over the world than our team at Nike. Creating those experiences requires an amazing amount of energy, a steady flow of big ideas to excite and surprise people, and a constant dialogue that connects us on a personal level.

The only opponent who has been able to keep up with me was Roberto Carlos.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

If I had all the qualities that the newspapers are talking about, I'd be the best player in history.

The 1500 m. record was considered impossible to break.

It's more of a mental sport because I know I can push harder than someone who doesn't know what his body can do.

I feel like five rounds is nothing for me.

It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

I made the New Zealand team, won medals around the world. I thought, 'I'm blessed. I've got a good talent.' I had no idea, though, how good I might be. But I loved the sport.

The number of really good athletes is decreasing. People don't want to work as hard anymore and they complain. In the future, there probably won't be as many good athletes because they won't work as hard. The world is getting lazy.