American Athletes Quotes

Last night I went out for Chinese. I picked up a Team USA Olympic uniform.

Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than Chinese kids? That never happens.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

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.

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

This is the home of hurdling, and the Americans are the kings of the event.

In another show of America's force to the world, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Carter responded by boycotting the Olympics. And thus was a fearsome blow struck at little fourteen-year-old American girls who had spent their lives training for the Olympics.

America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.