Quotes About Recognition

It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.

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 didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

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

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 never really wanted Big Air to be in the Olympics.

It's the Basketball Hall of Fame, not the NBA Hall of Fame. So, for basketball, I played in Olympics; I played in the Junior Olympics. With what I've done and given to basketball is all Hall of Fame.

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

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'm sure personal accolades are nice and you appreciate them very much. But it's about winning Cups and winning Olympics and winning World Cups and that kind of thing.

Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man - Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of track and field events at the Olympics and that says it all.

I'd like an omelet named after me.

It was hard for my friends to equate me with a picture like 'The Omen.'

What is important is that I am respected both on and off the field by cricketers and fans.

The night I won the Emmy, I probably cried for three hours on and off.

I think, more than my husband, my mother-in-law gets excited and proud and what not whenever she sees me on-screen.

It's a dream of mine to win a Grammy one day. I'm not saying I'm Grammy-worthy, but it would be a dream come true.

I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

When you're caught up in your career, you're not thinking about becoming a legend one day or how, 25 years from now, you'll be immortalized in something or that you might be going into the Hall of Fame.

There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on one half of one song or something.

Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.