“We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating...” — Ashton Eaton Quote

“We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating me. It's about each individual competing against himself.”

“My mom took me to a taekwondo class, and I fell in love. I was seven years old.”

“The world record is like you we went to the theater to see this movie, and it was really good, and it had an unexpected ending, and you left the theater saying, 'Wow, that was such a great movie.'”

“No doubt, if you go through records, Dhoni is India's best captain to date. Beating Sourav Ganguly, he won the Tests, ODIs, and T20s, won both the World Cups. Nobody can deny that, but to give credit to a single person is not good; others should also get credit for winning the Cups.”

“Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.”