Quotes About Success

I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?

I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.

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.

I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care - I'm Olympic champion.

I think it was just me who thought I could be Olympic champion. I've been telling myself that, and I did that.

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.

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'

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.

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

Winning the Olympic gold was amazing.

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've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

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.

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.

We knew James Harden was good. You don't get named to All-Star games and win Olympic gold medals when you play like Darko Milicic.

You don't win the Olympic to make millions. People are always like, 'Where is your Lamborghini?'

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.