Quotes About Struggle

I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.

Getting to the Olympics was the hard part.

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question of if they will. It's not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn't mean anything. It's that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.

I don't think I could ever make 155. I made 163 for the Olympics, and that is a super low weight for me. I'm a fairly big person, and for me to make 163 was incredibly difficult.

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

When I was 16, coming up through now at 24, it was so much I thought I had to change about myself. Especially after I won the Olympics.

You grow through the conflict and you emerge together. I think that's what the Olympics are all about.

That's just the mystery in the air of the Olympics. It's full of dreams, and sometimes dreams don't come true.

I have some great memories from the Olympics I also have some tough memories from it as well, where I was so close to winning a gold medal.

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.

The Olympics should be something so special, but I feel like it was definitely miserable at times.

Being injured has harmed me on and off the field in a lot of ways.

I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.

I just have to stop biting my nails. I've been on and off that bandwagon so many times. I feel like it's going to be a lifelong struggle.

Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.