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Daley Thompson Biography

Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson, CBE (born 30 July 1958), is an English former decathlete. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times.

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I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

Corporations, Fitness, Mainly, Training, World

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

Athlete, Firsts, Games, Remember, Weeks, Winner

I don't even have my own computer.

Computer, My Own

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

Athletics, Built, Heart, Motivation, Probably, Thinking

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

Competitive, Defines, Love

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

Athlete, Athletes, Good, Long, People

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.

Jobs, Recognise, Sort, Things, Thinking, Years

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

Black, Man, Men, Year, Years

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Lie, Lying, Measure, Stopwatch, Tape

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

Fact, Facts, People, Positive, Qualities, Quality

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

Favour, Requires, Skills, Strengths, Weakness

When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere. '

100M, Same, Shots, Stadiums, Walking, Weight

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

Call, Day, Doctors, Hard, Long, Years

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

Deserve, Mind, Minds, People, Sport, Sports

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

Grow, Leadership, Old, Slow Down, Slowing, Want

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

Football, Hockey, Kids, Things

The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win.

Guy, Positively, Thinking, Thinks, Winning

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

Catch, Kids, People, Rate, Stage, Years

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

Competitive, Kids, Natural

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

Dark, Fun, Moscow, Opposites, Oppressive

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