Jessica Ennis-Hill Quotes

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

The Olympics were something that was put in my path. I knew I was capable, I worked so hard for it, so I guess it's like, Why wouldn't I want to go to the Olympics? But it was never something that I was really, really dead set on. It was just what my coaches and everyone else forced upon me.

But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

My dad saw it as a goal before I did, when I was 12 years old. I didn't think competing in Olympics was possible until I was 16.

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!

I know everyone has Olympic dreams, but if you really think about it, you just don't want to go to the Olympics. You want to be a gold medalist at the Olympic Games.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O'Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

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

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics.