Quotes About Perseverance

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.

Olympic athletes are a different breed. We're not dealing with million-dollar contracts. We don't do the sport for those deals. We do the sport because we love the challenge, the battle. We love to be an American.

It's harder to be a dad than an Olympic champion.

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.

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.

Being an Olympic athlete doesn't change who you are as a person.

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.

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

Calzaghe and Mayweather both got booed in the early part of their careers and look where they are now. I'm used to it, though, in the Olympic final I got booed by the Cubans and the Chinese so I'm ready to deal with it, do what I do and beat what is in front of me.

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

Winning a title in Olympic year is never easy.

The Olympic Games showed us that with self-discipline and dedication we can be champions.

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

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

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

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.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

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

Getting to the Olympic Games was my gold medal.

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.