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.

- Bryan Clay

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.

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

My life was very Japanese.

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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.

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

I have a black lab named Luke.

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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.

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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.

- Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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

- Bryan Clay

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.

- Bryan Clay