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I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

During the decathlon, I always think only of the next event and my personal record.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.