I played a lot better. I played a lot better than I had played in the last three games. I felt like I was concentrating a lot more.

We're very excited. We're excited that we get another chance to play them, because they beat us really bad last year.

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.