Quotes About Inspiration

The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning.

I won the Olympics. This is a dream, dude.

When I was 5 years old, I told my grandmother I was going to play hockey in the Olympics. Fifteen years later, I competed in my first Olympics.

I've dreamed about going to the Olympics ever since I was young.

It's important that the Olympics are motivating to young people and inspiring to all, and the only way to do that is to ensure clean performances, free of cheating.

In 2012, I thought that maybe I could be an Olympic gold medalist. It just came from sitting home and being injured and watching the Olympics on the TV.

When I plummeted into infamy in the Calgary Olympics, I never thought that a film would be made about my life.

My dad saw it as a goal before I did, when I was 12 years old. I didn't think competing in Olympics was possible until I was 16.

On the street, I'll hear, 'You made the Olympics for me,' or 'I love what you represented.' Only occasionally is it, 'You were a flop, an also-ran, a loser.'

Special Olympics is such an empowering organization for the thousands of athletes involved and those of us like myself who lend support to them.

The Olympics is one of the memories that will always be with me. It changed my life for the better.

Going to the Olympics would have been great.

I loved the Olympics.

For me, 'Cool Runnings' was amazing because I always wanted to bobsled and go to the Olympics.

The Olympics is where you see out of this world performances, isn't it?

Every time I turn on the Olympics there is somebody that I know and have had intense conversations with, and that's cool.

I fell in love with athletics watching the 1980 Moscow Olympics, aged seven. I thought: 'These people aren't human, they're immortal.'

I enjoyed watching 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' very much. Many such sports films should be made so that the upcoming generation draws inspiration from the sportspersons of our country, win medals at the Olympics and Asian Games, and make India proud.

Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man - Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of track and field events at the Olympics and that says it all.

I want to be able to do the Olympics and then do the Paralympics after.

My dream is to see an Indian with a gold medal in athletics in the Olympics.

Anybody who says the Olympics is just another race is not being honest.

You know, beating Rafa, it was great experience I had in Olympics.

I got a lot of good things from Olympics.