Quotes About Determination

I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.

It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

I have a goal in front of me and that is to achieve a gold medal at the Olympics in air rifle shooting.

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics.

In the Olympics, you only get one opportunity to bring it all together. If you don't, better luck in four years.

I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

I love the Olympics. Something about the Olympics just makes everything competitive.

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

I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

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

I started Little Athletics when I was five years old, but my Olympics dream started when I was 10 years old.

As a kid growing up, I was never like, 'I want to go to the Olympics,' so having to pass on 2012 because I was too young didn't bother me at all.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

The Olympics, as a little kid, it was such a big goal that I created for myself, and I was able to push through and make that happen.

I remember watching the '96 Olympics. For some reason, I was like 'Oh yeah, I'm going to go to the Olympics some day.' At that time as a kid, I did not know for what sport or really anything.