#me

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

#dream #drunk #everything #everywhere #gave

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

— Dan O'Brien

#culture #decathlon #i #i am #little

There's a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#just #life #lot #more #olympic

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#best #communication #different #ever #figure

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

— Dan O'Brien

#because #breakfast #breakfast cereal #cereal #hyper

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

#become #distance #guy #man #more

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#big #computer #end #feel #occasionally

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#album #around #fans #first #first time

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#oneself #overwhelmed #sadness

We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#bored #by the time #even #every #get