Dan O'Brien

Athlete

1966-07-18

Quotes by Dan O'Brien

• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.

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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. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

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