Dan O'Brien

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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

— Dan O'Brien

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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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

— Dan O'Brien

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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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