Quotes About Dreams

Once I was old enough to realize that the people I thought were inside the TV were actual people, it was like, 'I want to do that.'

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

I can remember, actually, seeing the film 'Oliver!' and understanding so badly that I wanted to play that part, but that I would never be able to because I was a 'girl' and Oliver was a 'boy.'

There are no words to describe what it would mean making the Olympic team.

Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I could also dream about being a great golfer like Bobby Jones or Byron Nelson. But the idea of being an Olympic golfer never occurred to me.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.

There was a time where I was on top of the world, an Olympic hopeful.

If you're from Argentina, you don't dream about these things. You probably dream about being in an Olympic game, but winning it? Going there and beating the NBA stars' team... you don't dream about that.

In 1974 or 1975, if someone had told me I was going to be an Olympic champion, I would not have believed it. Even in 1976, I'd not have believed it.

To win an Olympic gold would be very special for me.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games and the World Championships will be my big goals.

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games and being appointed the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. So I've just decided I'll go with my flow and be very prepared.

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.

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

I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a lifetime ago.

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.