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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

Biography

Author Profession: Athlete
Nationality: American
Born: June 18, 1966

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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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I call myself a chameleon.
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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.
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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.
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You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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Decathlon, Gold, Just, Medals, Men, Olympic, Realize, Time, Took, Won

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Decathlon, Gold, Just, Men, Olympic, Realize, Time, Took, Won