Quotes About Achievement

I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care - I'm Olympic champion.

I think it was just me who thought I could be Olympic champion. I've been telling myself that, and I did that.

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.

I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'

Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given.

Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about women's ability to run longer distances. It was finally added after much campaigning.

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

I want to get another Olympic medal outside the team event.

Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.

I'm a two-time Olympian, but ever since I was a little girl, the Olympic dream has influenced me.

Making the Olympic team was the biggest thing I've ever accomplished. That was something I had to wait four years to accomplish.

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.

Winning the Olympic gold was amazing.

I'm looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it's going to take to get there.

I'm not really sure if I will go back to school. I'm getting old! So I'm not really sure if I have time to go back to school to be a dentist. But hopefully I'll be an Olympic gold medalist.

I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

There was a time in my life I wanted that Olympic medal, and all I did was train, train, train and work harder than ever.

There was a time where I was on top of the world, an Olympic hopeful.

My number-one goal was just to be a good person, a good father, a good husband and then, after that, was to be an Olympic champ and eventually a UFC champ. And I've done everything I've ever kinda set my mind to.

If you're from Argentina, you don't dream about these things. You probably dream about being in an Olympic game, but winning it? Going there and beating the NBA stars' team... you don't dream about that.

Everybody kept saying I wasn't going to get any fights. And they wouldn't put me on TV and they don't respect women's boxing. But I also turned professional with two Olympic gold medals and that's something that no other American boxer has ever done. With that, I've been getting a lot of respect.