Commonwealth Games Quotes

I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

I've been living in England for a while, and I am still trying to figure out why we have Great Britain playing the Olympics together and England in football.

Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.

I'm going to do the Commonwealth Games for no other reason than national pride. It's something special getting to ride for the Isle of Man.

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that's where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.

I had planned on taking things easy for a while in 2014 but things started to crop up and I ended up having quite a busy year, with events including the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games with Rod Stewart.

Before Babita and my win at the CommonWealth Games, nobody used to take Indian women wrestlers seriously.

During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold.

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

I have got lots of silver medals, from Delhi in 2010 and London in 2012, so it would be nice to pick up some golds, and the Commonwealth Games is a great place to start.