Quotes About Achievement

We knew James Harden was good. You don't get named to All-Star games and win Olympic gold medals when you play like Darko Milicic.

We feel like we're the Olympic gold medallists and we have the opportunity to bring that gold home. That will be our goal and short of that we would probably be disappointed.

In 1974 or 1975, if someone had told me I was going to be an Olympic champion, I would not have believed it. Even in 1976, I'd not have believed it.

I still really haven't sat down and said 'yeah, I'm ranked No. 1 in the world and I'm an Olympic Gold Medalist.' It just hasn't hit me.

To win an Olympic gold would be very special for me.

If I can inspire at least one per cent to live what I lived being a part of the Canadian Olympic team then I'm very happy with that.

We're not coming back unless it's to become Olympic champions again.

I was 80-1 to win Olympic gold.

The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.

How can you top an Olympic gold other than, you know, getting a second Olympic gold?

I got an Olympic medal.

I'm happy to see that more girls are going into weightlifting and aiming to become Olympic medalists as well.

Winning a title in Olympic year is never easy.

You must understand that to get an Olympic medal is a huge achievement.

To do a PB in an Olympic final - I'm pretty happy - you can't ask for more, that's the fastest time I have ever swum.

I don't know if it'll happen four years from now or 52 years from now, but our job is to make an Olympic gold medal happen at some point for the history of the U.S. program.

I see the opportunity to pursue an Olympic berth as a chance of a lifetime.

There's a lot of pressure being an Olympic athlete.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

10,000 athletes go and compete at an Olympic Games, only 300 go back with a gold medal, the number is very, very less.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games and the World Championships will be my big goals.

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?'

Rio is going to be my fifth Olympic games - it's been a long journey but a rewarding one, I would say.