Excerpt from Letsrun's recap below:
Eaton is one of the more interesting and reflective athletes in the sport. He talked about the decathlon almost as an art form. “I don’t really do this for myself. I use track and field for my expression for my belief that you should always (pauses) I don’t know. I think the point of life is to just try and improve. Get inspired to do something and then try and do it better.”
Does anyone actually believe that? Ok Ashton if you don't do it for yourself, how about Nike stops paying you the big bucks for it? Would you still do it for $40K or even $100K? Why not take a pay cut if that's not what you care about?
Maybe I'm being nitpicky but I hate when athletes try to come off way more selfless than they are.