Daley Thompson Quotations

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

I don't even have my own computer.