A Quote by Daley Thompson

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

Daley Thompson

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Daley Thompson
English - Athlete
Born: July 30, 1958

The heptathlon world record is nice, but the decathlon is the event. I think the heptathlon is more like a practice. There is something completely different about the decathlon.

Ashton Eaton

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

Malcolm Gladwell

We have amazing stunt performers and in Miguel Sapochnik, a director who's so good at spending hours and hours and hours on every shot beforehand, so that he knows exactly what he wants when he gets to the battlefield on the day. We only shoot ten-hour days, so you have to pack a lot into those ten hours.

David Benioff

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

Don Rickles

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

Caitlyn Jenner

President Obama broke a world record after he reached a million followers on Twitter in just five hours. The only guys not following Obama? His Secret Service agents. They lost track months ago.

Jimmy Fallon

I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

Haruki Murakami

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Rachael Ray

Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.

Po Bronson

I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.

Angelina Jolie

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

Sandra Lee

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

Miranda July

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

Dan O'Brien

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

David Sedaris

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

Mickey Mantle

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