Quotes About Success

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.

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

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

Popov was double Olympic champion in '92 and '96, and then Gary Hall came along and won in 2000 and 2004, and I would be the next on the list. That's a good goal, to have my name on that list alongside these guys.

I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that's enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.

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

As an Olympic athlete, I was at the top of my sport.

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.

I'm a Golden Gloves national champion, I'm an Olympic alternate.

To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

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

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

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

It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.

The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend.

People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the medal unless someone asks about it.

I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.

I am Olympic champion for life, and I have learned to enjoy what that means.