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Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.


Katarina Johnson-Thompson

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DALEY THOMPSON Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon r...
DALEY THOMPSON Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't affo...
DALEY THOMPSON I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
DALEY THOMPSON I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur...
DALEY THOMPSON I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit sla...
DALEY THOMPSON Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to im...
DALEY THOMPSON If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - a...
DALEY THOMPSON Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
DALEY THOMPSON Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now ...
LEA THOMPSON For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E.P. THOMPSON There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again...
CRAIG THOMPSON When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems ver...
SADA THOMPSON I am a very bottom-up thinker.
KEN THOMPSON It was the first study conducted with middle-class African-American men.
AARON THOMPSON Defense is key, it comes first.
AARON THOMPSON It's the right thing to do. We're doing what any responsible institution would do.
AARON THOMPSON It's safe to say the institutions won't be up and running for a while. They'll be here for at least ...
AARON THOMPSON It's just interaction with your customer, if he's buying you a drink, that should be OK, and you kno...
AARON THOMPSON [To meet that need, said Aaron Thompson of the Orange County Red Cross, the school board has turned ...
AARON THOMPSON The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a c...
TESSA THOMPSON I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON We have become a little Main Street. These shops are out there every single Saturday selling mostly ...
ALLEN THOMPSON This community has been outstanding. There are a lot of differences of opinion in this community, bu...
ALLEN THOMPSON We've become the place where people come to meet. Because we are in the center of town, people will ...
ALLEN THOMPSON It has been very, very exciting. It has really grown.
ALLEN THOMPSON For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men...
DOROTHY THOMPSON I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
EMMA THOMPSON