Albert II, Prince of Monaco Quotes

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

For me, 'Cool Runnings' was amazing because I always wanted to bobsled and go to the Olympics.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my hand at bobsled. They'd seen it on TV at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 and thought it would be a good sport for me.

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport I was involved in, I wanted to go to the Olympics for that!

Fighting at the Olympics has been my lifelong dream, and I cannot believe I am there now.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

A football player at any level must set goals.

I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

It was a dream to play the World Cup and I will play for sure in the future.

I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.

I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.

I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.

I'd love to have another chance to represent my country in the Olympics. If I'm healthy, absolutely... I'm very realistic when it comes to goals. I think it will all depend on my health.

My dream is to play football as long as I can and that's what I want to do.

In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

It always has been a goal of mine to compete in the Olympics. Right after I graduated from college, I moved out to Salt Lake City with my mind focused on making the 2014 team.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.