Ashton Eaton Quotes

When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.

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

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

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

I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

The biggest danger to the movement is that it is getting too big in sheer weight of numbers. Other sports will become more popular in terms of numbers, and everyone will want to be involved in the Olympics.

Any Olympic sport is great to watch.

I mean look, everyone wants to do the story on the rising star, and when the star is up, they all want to be the one to bring it down because that's what people care about, right? They only care about the rise and the fall, so it's extreme positivity and extreme negativity.

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

The Olympics have always been very special to me.

Everyone loves sport. And everyone loves a quiz.

I don't feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.

And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to strive for. I love my silver medal, because it stands for all my dreams and all I'm still capable of fulfilling

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!