Quotes About Victory

My dream is to get gold medal both in the world championship and the Olympics.

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

I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.

I've always said the Olympics are special to me.

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

The Olympics is a dream of mine.

Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

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.'

See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'

I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

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.

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.

Getting to the Olympics was the hard part.

I won the Olympics. This is a dream, dude.

The Olympics have always been very special to me.

I know everyone has Olympic dreams, but if you really think about it, you just don't want to go to the Olympics. You want to be a gold medalist at the Olympic Games.

I look back, in an endearing way, on that time of my life when I was competing at the Olympics.

Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three.

I didn't make the Olympics, but I beat a lot of the guys that went to the Olympics, so I felt I was at that level even though I didn't make it.

Winning for your country in the Olympics is the ultimate dream for any sportsperson, and I am determined to do it.

Playing in the Copa America would be an important thing for me, just like the Olympics, because Brazil has never won the gold medal there.

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.