Saku Koivu Quotes

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

The goal for me is the Olympics. It's Sochi and doing my best there. And, you know, my best has the potential to be on the podium.

To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I don't think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

I love the Olympics.

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

Olympics is everyone's dream.

I have always loved the Summer Olympics.

The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

I can't count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I've done and how many world championships I've been to, so I think I've really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect.

Each Olympics is different with their own great parts to it.

Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder or the ninth last year are fighting for the same medal, and you have got to go there like it was the first time.

I am training 8-9 hours a day and will give my best shot for Rio.

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?