Olympic Glory Quotes

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

My father represented India at the Olympics, and I also want to do that.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

I want to be looked at as one of the greatest sprinters of all-time.

Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

In America with the Olympics when you not only have a medal but a gold medal all of a sudden people come out of the wood work and you're treated a little bit differently. I guess that's where my personality is, that's where I just can't get used to all this.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

People will come up to me at live events or wherever and have me sign Canadian flags or the old 'Team Canada' shirt and have me talk about those days back in 'Team Canada,' so it's a moment that I'm proud of.

It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.

I've dreamed about going to the Olympics ever since I was young.

Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.

Popov was double Olympic champion in '92 and '96, and then Gary Hall came along and won in 2000 and 2004, and I would be the next on the list. That's a good goal, to have my name on that list alongside these guys.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

It eventually ends, and that's what I think a lot of athletes forget. It's 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that's great, but no one cares.