I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

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