Quotes About Fulfillment

I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'

Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.

To do a PB in an Olympic final - I'm pretty happy - you can't ask for more, that's the fastest time I have ever swum.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

There's a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games.

London was my first Olympics. It was my dream to get there, and I literally had the time of my life.

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

I didn't know if I was gonna make the Olympic roster, but just to be part of that journey to get to the Olympics and inevitably win a medal - even if I wasn't a part of the roster, knowing that I had a part in it, I would have been so content.

My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

Fighting at the Olympics has been my lifelong dream, and I cannot believe I am there now.

When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived up exactly to that.

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.

I've done everything - All-Stars, Olympics. The only thing I haven't done is win MVP of the league. There's nothing else I haven't accomplished.

I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to make it to the Olympics.

I was happy to complete 118kg. When I lifted it, I knew my place in the Olympics was secured.

If I was able to be omniscient and look at my career objectively, I'd be very happy.

I'm always happy for guys who are enjoying the game and maximizing their potential on and off the court.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

I love singing; I just don't get to do it enough. The times that I do it, once a year, every year with 'Divas Simply Singing,' is a truly joy to me, but I'd love to do it some more.

If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.

I'd want to be born once more as myself, but more talented.