Quotes About Athletics

Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An Olympic medal in athletics is still a dream for India. Milkha Singh is the torchbearer for young athletes to achieve that goal.

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'm sure that if Ronda could take time off, go to the gym and train for three months for a fight with Holly Holm with absolutely no distractions, I don't even want to imagine the Ronda Rousey we're going to see come out. Again, we are talking top of the food chain, Olympic, amazing athlete.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

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

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

I'd like to do some modelling. But I will go on with pentathlon until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

I am almost 30 so I am approaching this one as if it will be my last Olympic Games. I want to put out 110 percent to make sure that I am up at the top.

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.

I will always be grateful for having that opportunity to be part of a home Olympic games. It is a memory I will cherish forever.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.