Quotes About Dedication

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport.

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.

If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another year until Rio, maybe I could even become Olympic champion.

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

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

We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.

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

I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.

Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

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.

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

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.

I'm a two-time Olympian, but ever since I was a little girl, the Olympic dream has influenced me.

Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.

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.

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.

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