Quotes About Success

I still really haven't sat down and said 'yeah, I'm ranked No. 1 in the world and I'm an Olympic Gold Medalist.' It just hasn't hit me.

If I can inspire at least one per cent to live what I lived being a part of the Canadian Olympic team then I'm very happy with that.

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

I love all the attention I've got since becoming Olympic champion and being asked to go to different events, but boxing is what I do.

I was 80-1 to win Olympic gold.

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.

The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.

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

I got an Olympic medal.

I'm happy to see that more girls are going into weightlifting and aiming to become Olympic medalists as well.

You must understand that to get an Olympic medal is a huge achievement.

I've become Olympic champion six times and I've never taken a performance-enhancing drug in my life, but I was lucky in that I never even had the choice. I never had pressure and I never had a person come to me saying, 'You should do this.'

To do a PB in an Olympic final - I'm pretty happy - you can't ask for more, that's the fastest time I have ever swum.

I don't know if it'll happen four years from now or 52 years from now, but our job is to make an Olympic gold medal happen at some point for the history of the U.S. program.

I see the opportunity to pursue an Olympic berth as a chance of a lifetime.

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.

The Olympic Games and the World Championships will be my big goals.

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?'

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.

They usually say that after the Olympic Games, somebody's life changes forever, and a lot of times, it's the gold medalist. But I have a feeling that my life has changed forever.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

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.