Quotes About Performance

Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.

We have had no bonuses for winning Olympic medals, I haven't even had a call from the ABA. I was on assisted performance funding, but I had that stopped.

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.

There's a lot of pressure being an Olympic athlete.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

I've played in many different environments and at the highest level at an Olympic Games.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

In the Olympics, you only get one opportunity to bring it all together. If you don't, better luck in four years.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.

Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

I can't count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I've done and how many world championships I've been to, so I think I've really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect.

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.

Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

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.

Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad 'it was like the Special Olympics or something.' Disability, by Obama's definition, was about difference and failure.