Carly Patterson Quotes

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

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.

I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.

After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.

I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

I'm going to win a gold medal.

Everything I do is for a gold medal for this country.

You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.

Anything can happen. Everybody is working to be on that team and to win the Olympic Games.

My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.

Having the chance to win a gold medal doesn't come around very often.

I wasn't jumping like Carl Lewis, but I still won an Olympic title.

I'm confident I can take the gold in Beijing.

I'm chasing that gold medal.

My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.