Bryan Clay Quotations

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

For decathletes, our event goes all throughout the day so you're trying to go up and down and up and down emotionally and physically and you know mentally you're just on a roller coaster.

I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

I have a black lab named Luke.

My life was very Japanese.

On any given day one of us could have won. I'm just glad it went my way. Roman was there every step of the way.

I am just happy to still be in the medals to be going home with another silver medal.

Even though I'm what people call a 'world-class athlete,' I have to do all the same things doctors are talking about (to prevent and treat joint pain),

I've been dreaming about this since I was a little kid, since I was 8 years old. I'm just glad these dreams are starting to come true.

I wake up every morning feeling like I have arthritis -- my body does not work,

It was just a great competition that I had with Roman. It's always great to beat the king,

I'm very, very disappointed with my performance here.

I helped deliver the baby and everything. That was probably the most exciting moment of my life, ... This is a somewhat-close second.