Quotes About Olympic

Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.

When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.

The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.

Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.

I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.

I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be 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 want to get another Olympic medal outside the team event.

Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.

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.

It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.

I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.

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.

Henry Cejudo is going to become the greatest combat athlete of all time, being an Olympic champ and a two-division champ in the UFC.

I'm looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it's going to take to get there.

I had a dream as a young boy to be Olympic champion in boxing, and that's what I focused on with my father - making it a reality.

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

My number-one goal was just to be a good person, a good father, a good husband and then, after that, was to be an Olympic champ and eventually a UFC champ. And I've done everything I've ever kinda set my mind to.

Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.

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.

We feel like we're the Olympic gold medallists and we have the opportunity to bring that gold home. That will be our goal and short of that we would probably be disappointed.