Quotes About Commitment

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts.

I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fulfill my dreams coming to the 2012 London Olympics.

I really wanted to come into the Olympics.

I need to practice every day to be at my best for winning the third gold at the Rio Olympics.

I've always said the Olympics are special to me.

I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'

Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

Getting to the Olympics was the hard part.

You don't want to do sevens just for the sake of going to the Olympics. its something you've got to want to do.

I wanted to make it clear I wouldn't play in the 2020 season and the Olympics, but don't think it's the right time to put retirement out there.

It will be my fourth Olympics. I don't know if I'll have a chance to play more. I think four is a good number. After 16 years on the national team, I'm not going to get to 2020. It's a little bit too far for me.

I wanted to do whatever I can for Olympics. I just want to give my best shot.

We wanted to be World Champions before going to the Olympics.

Anybody who says the Olympics is just another race is not being honest.

I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure I wanted to wait for another four years.

I informed the team three years before the Olympics that I was retiring from indoor. It's not as if I left six months before the Olympics and left them with a gaping hole to fill. I retired in July of '89. The Olympics were July of '92.

The Olympics are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I've worked so hard to get this far.

If the cards just so happen to be drawn that I get called up to the big leagues and become ineligible to go to the Olympics, then so be it.

When God gave me the chance to compete in the Rio Olympics, I thought that He gave me the chance and I needed to give it my all.

I first decided that I could make a career of MMA after I decided to take it seriously and not act like a teenager in some band, but fully commit myself like a professional. Roughly, when I decided to up and move in the middle of the night from Omaha, Neb. to Denver, Colo. for proper training.

I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.