Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay (born January 3, 1980) is an American decathlete. He was the 2008 Summer Olympic champion for the decathlon and was also World champion in 2005.
Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.
I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.
My life was very Japanese.
It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.
We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.
I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.
I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.
I have a black lab named Luke.
I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.
I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.
I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.
I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.
I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.
How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.