When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

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.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

That is a hit record, ... All over the world, that is a hit record.