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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
I call myself a chameleon.
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.
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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.
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.
It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
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