“I’ve found that since I’ve been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I’m using the acoustic.”

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

There is no magic move or secret that creates victory but lots of little items that, when added together, can make you victorious.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Behind every good decathlete, there’s a good doctor.

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

A key factor is to do training that is fun.

A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don’t begin to construct the sites faster.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano.

I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!