The World Motivation
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.
“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
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.
When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
The Modi government started several welfare schemes for poor and realised the dream of corruption-free India.
My dream girl... well, I love eyes. And lips. She has to have nice lips!
It's something that you dream of as a kid growing up, watching Wimbledon on TV, saying, 'Man, I hope to be there one day.'
As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.