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Ashton Eaton

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 21, 1988

I was one of those kids who, everything I tried sports-related, I liked.

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I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

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I am actually a huge supporter of the Canadian athletes, and they are all really nice people.

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I dated my first girlfriend for, like, two weeks in high school, and when you're in high school, it's so much different. I wanted to hang out with my friends and play video games and play paintball and do guy stuff. Girls were never around for my friends group.

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Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

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I guess the decathlon's never an easy walkthrough.

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Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.

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The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade? I notice a lot of things in general tend to follow that up-and-down trend.

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I don't have one specific person that I think is the most athletic person.

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My mom took me to a taekwondo class, and I fell in love. I was seven years old.

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You see somebody on a football field make a great, athletic 70-yard run, but the athleticism is immeasurable. It's undoubtedly athletic, but compared to somebody else who did something else, how do you compare it? That's the great part of track and field. It's a test, but with results that you can compare to others.

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The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are necessary.

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The first pet I remember was a cat called Baby. She would sleep with me, and I could call her from anywhere, and she would come running.

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From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

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If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.

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I'm not much of a gym rat; I'd rather be running, but if it enables me to run faster, then I guess I can tough it out.

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That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

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When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It's like I'm just twiddling my thumbs.

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Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.

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I can't remember when I wasn't running around doing some sort of a sporting activity.

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