Quotes About Achievement

There are no words to describe what it would mean making the Olympic team.

My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.

Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

Popov was double Olympic champion in '92 and '96, and then Gary Hall came along and won in 2000 and 2004, and I would be the next on the list. That's a good goal, to have my name on that list alongside these guys.

I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that's enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.

I want to be European, world and Olympic gold medallist.

As an Olympic athlete, I was at the top of my sport.

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.

I'm a Golden Gloves national champion, I'm an Olympic alternate.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.

I want the full Olympic experience.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.