Aly Raisman Quotes

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.

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

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.

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

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning.

Until the moment I stop playing football, I want to win more titles.

In 2012, I thought that maybe I could be an Olympic gold medalist. It just came from sitting home and being injured and watching the Olympics on the TV.

I just want to be one of the greatest players to play. That's my mind set. That's how I approach the game.

I truly consider sports stars as the real stars because they represent our country, which makes them really stand apart. I don't think I can be one of them, and I just find them extremely confident and self-made.

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.

I'm a two-time Olympian, but ever since I was a little girl, the Olympic dream has influenced me.

I want to win a national championship; that's been my dream since I was a child.

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.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, and I'd think, 'I want to be a legend like that.'

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

My father once told me when I was a young girl that I was destined to do great things. His belief in my abilities and ambition is rooted deeply in the spirit of Malawians; resilient and determined for a better Malawi and a better Africa.

I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.