Olympic Training Quotes

As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

The goal for me is the Olympics. It's Sochi and doing my best there. And, you know, my best has the potential to be on the podium.

I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

I've been training like an Olympian.

I grew up learning martial arts in Korea; my dad actually brought in an Olympic instructor to teach me as a teenager.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

Ever since they announced that golf would be returning to the Olympics, I thought, 'Hey, I wanna get myself on the team.' It has always been my dream.

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

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

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

Every now and then, you'll get one of those days when you're feeling rubbish or when you have to pretty much drag yourself out of bed to get to training. But then you'll see the Olympic pool, and all the excitement and adrenaline will come rushing back.

I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.'

When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

Everything that I did to win a gold medal, I'm practically transferring it over to mixed martial arts.

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

I never dreamt of the Olympics growing up. It's not something that I watched on TV; it's not something my parents ever talked about.

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.