Ashton Eaton Quotes

• 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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• The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I’m not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I’ll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

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• When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

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• I didn’t expect to score that high. I didn’t get any big marks. It was constant. My goal in Korea is to win. There’s no timetable when to set the American record.

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• There’s never going to be a decathlon that you’re going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You’re always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It’s like you go for the perfect 10.

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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’m not maximized yet.

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• The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It’s the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration.

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• The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

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• I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there’s that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I’m competitive in all aspects.

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• I won’t back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

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Ashton Eaton (11)

Birth:	21st January, 1988
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Athlete

About

Ashton James Eaton was born in Portland, Oregon. He is an American decathlete and Olympic champion, who holds the world record in both the decathlon and heptathlon events, and is only the second decathlete  to break the 9,000-point barrier, with 9,039 points. He competes for the Oregon Track Club Elite team based in Eugene, Oregon. In college, Eaton competed for the University of Oregon, where he was a five-time NCAA champion, and won The Bowerman award in 2010. In 2011, Eaton won the first international medal of his career, a silver, in the decathlon at the 2011 World Championships. The following year, Eaton broke his own world record in the heptathlon at the 2012 World Indoor Championships, and then went on to break the world record in the decathlon at the Olympic Trials. After setting the world record, Eaton easily won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

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