Quotes About Olympics

Winning that team-pursuit Olympic gold medal was unbelievable.

In 2004 after winning my first Olympic gold medal I was featured in magazines as an eligible bachelor. Soon after I started receiving unique and odd fan mail, mainly from female prisoners. I've gotten prison art and love letters throughout the years.

Winning the 2012 bronze medal was magnificent, but I would love to win a gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

As a goalkeeper experience is a massive thing, and there is nothing better than playing games, which thankfully I managed to do at the Olympics.

I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press release that said slope style was gonna be included in the Olympics. And the first thing I did was call up my coach Mike Hanley, and we were ecstatic.

In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.

I've always had a fascination with gymnastics, since I was a kid. It was the one thing at the Olympics that I would be like, 'Mom can I stay up late to watch gymnastics?'

HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

It took many months in court, but the tabloid eventually published a total retraction and paid substantial damages in an out-of-court settlement. The money went to the Special Olympics in Great Britain.

I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.

Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was married to my father, and the church put pressure on her to pull out of the Olympic team, saying, 'You can't be exposing all your legs.' That's how strong the influence of the church was on us all.

It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.

For me, it's a big deal to compete in the Olympics because it's so tough to qualify.

The best boxers don't always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please God, that won't happen to me.

I believe that if I can qualify for the Olympics, I have the skills to compete at the highest level and do good for my country.

We are better placed than Pakistan as we have been playing against top teams around the world. Pakistan on the other hand failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in their history.

No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.