Quotes About Aspiration

I can remember, actually, seeing the film 'Oliver!' and understanding so badly that I wanted to play that part, but that I would never be able to because I was a 'girl' and Oliver was a 'boy.'

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

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

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

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?'

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another year until Rio, maybe I could even become Olympic champion.

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.

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

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.

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

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

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

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.

I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a lifetime ago.

Gold slipped from my hand at the Rome Olympics and then from P.T. Usha at the Los Angeles Olympics. But it is my dream to see a boy or girl from India winning gold in the Olympics before my death.

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics.

Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn't think of being in the Olympics some day.

The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.

Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.