Quotes About Dedication

I am almost 30 so I am approaching this one as if it will be my last Olympic Games. I want to put out 110 percent to make sure that I am up at the top.

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.

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.

Anything can happen. Everybody is working to be on that team and to win the Olympic Games.

Getting to the Olympic Games was my gold medal.

I've always wanted to be an athlete, I loved sport and PE in school and always watched the Olympic Games on TV.

Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.

The Olympics are in my blood and everybody knows how much I love my country.

Just going to the Olympics would be a dream come true. I could finish last, and it would still be an amazing experience.

I feel like I'm always looking to continue improving myself. I'm always looking to win. I'm super competitive, so going into the Olympics, I feel like that's nothing different.

To me, the Olympics are very important, obviously, but it's not something that I'm gonna change everything for.

I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.

Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn't think of being in the Olympics some day.

The Olympics are a completely different beast. It's the most magical moment of your career.

You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.

I've played in four Olympics. I'm grateful for that.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.