Quotes About Determination

I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care - I'm Olympic champion.

There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.

I think it was just me who thought I could be Olympic champion. I've been telling myself that, and I did that.

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.

The reason I like Olympic boxing is that all the best fighters come together and find out who the best fighter is.

Henry Cejudo is going to become the greatest combat athlete of all time, being an Olympic champ and a two-division champ in the UFC.

I'm not really sure if I will go back to school. I'm getting old! So I'm not really sure if I have time to go back to school to be a dentist. But hopefully I'll be an Olympic gold medalist.

My number-one goal was just to be a good person, a good father, a good husband and then, after that, was to be an Olympic champ and eventually a UFC champ. And I've done everything I've ever kinda set my mind to.

We feel like we're the Olympic gold medallists and we have the opportunity to bring that gold home. That will be our goal and short of that we would probably be disappointed.

I was 80-1 to win Olympic gold.

Calzaghe and Mayweather both got booed in the early part of their careers and look where they are now. I'm used to it, though, in the Olympic final I got booed by the Cubans and the Chinese so I'm ready to deal with it, do what I do and beat what is in front of me.

It's an Olympic year, man, and crazy stuff always happens in an Olympic year.

The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.

I'm sure that if Ronda could take time off, go to the gym and train for three months for a fight with Holly Holm with absolutely no distractions, I don't even want to imagine the Ronda Rousey we're going to see come out. Again, we are talking top of the food chain, Olympic, amazing athlete.

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?'

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

My one and only focus at the Olympic Games is to win a gold medal.

I don't think revenge is enough to fuel the fire it takes to go to an Olympic Games and be successful.

I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.

I'd love to be in the Olympics and face Felix Savon again. But if I can't, I'll make the best of it. Life ain't over.