Bobsled Quotes

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

I train with track athletes, which is weird for bobsledders. I love training with track athletes because they help me work on my speed, and they give me something to cheer for during the Summer Olympics.

I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my hand at bobsled. They'd seen it on TV at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 and thought it would be a good sport for me.

Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill.

Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three.

I travel quite a bit for both bobsled and leisure.

People say a two-man sled is like driving a racecar, and a four-man is like driving a truck. And it feels that way.

For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings.' Well, 'Cool Runnings' was, of course, four men in a bobsled, and four-man is considered the highlight of our sport. It's what everybody knows. It's what everybody watches. And it's the big dog of our sport.

The first run in a four-man sled was one of the most nerve-wracking I've had in my life.

Bobsled is the first time I decided, win, lose, or draw, I was all-in for all four years. I figured if I was going to step away from a very lucrative career, I owed it to myself and my family to see this through to the very end.

When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero.

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

I converted from softball. We've got volleyball, we've got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled.

In bobsled, you work as a team - a driver and a brakeman. Both athletes push, but the brakeman's biggest responsibility is to push as fast as she can and get in and ride down in a good aerodynamic position. The driver helps to push but gets in first and then steers the sled down the track. We aren't just along for the ride, despite how it looks!

A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled.

I think that was the scariest part about bobsled, is when you just don't know what's happening, you don't know where you are on the track, you don't know when it's going to be over, and you don't know what it's supposed to feel like.