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It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.


Lea Thompson

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ALAN THOMPSON In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletic...
DALEY THOMPSON We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
DALEY THOMPSON But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
DALEY THOMPSON Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be th...
DALEY THOMPSON I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after...
DALEY THOMPSON Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to cat...
DALEY THOMPSON When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
DALEY THOMPSON Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power ...
DALEY THOMPSON I am only about winning and getting better.
DALEY THOMPSON I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
DALEY THOMPSON Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my care...
DALEY THOMPSON Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything...
DALEY THOMPSON Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
DALEY THOMPSON If you're not in it you can't win it.
DALEY THOMPSON We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don'...
DALEY THOMPSON People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really w...
DALEY THOMPSON I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you ...
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 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