Gabby Douglas Quotes

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

My dad really pushed me, my brother and my sisters from young to be great. We've taken the time and put a lot of work in, so I'm sure we can all go on and achieve some great things.

I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

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.

I have worked hard to get where I am.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'

What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.

My WWE career has been amazing. It took a lot of time for me to get here, and you never stop paying your dues.

If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.

I'm proud of my career as a player.

Ultimately, it was always my dream to be here in the NBA. I just took it serious. I knew if I put in the work I could eventually get here.