Quotes About Competition

Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

I never really wanted Big Air to be in the Olympics.

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.

The Olympics is all about inclusion, coming together for sport. That's the footprint I want to leave.

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.

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport I was involved in, I wanted to go to the Olympics for that!

If I had to be in the Olympics, I suppose I would do the javelin throw.

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.

It's quite an honor to be selected to represent my country in the Olympics.

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

I hope I will get a chance to compete in the Olympics.

The Olympics in '92, I didn't contribute that much. I had more to do with winning the National Championships than I did the gold medal.

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.

You need a little bit of experience to do well in the Olympics.

One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question of if they will. It's not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn't mean anything. It's that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.

For me, it would be the perfect summer to play in the Euros and then the Olympics. My desire is to play in both.

A gold medal at the Olympics is hard to top.

It's a great feeling to earn a place in the Olympics.

A lot of guys get out of wrestling immediately after winning a gold medal. Every time another Olympics comes around, it's always a bunch of fresh faces. For me, to win an Olympic gold and have a chance to win another would be huge for our sport.

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

We found our joy in being athletes in PyeongChang. Our biggest joy was being on the ice. Every moment revolved around just what it would take to win the Olympics.