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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.
The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.
One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.
I'm not U.S.A. Olympic image. I didn't go to college. I came from a different route.
I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.
My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.
It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.
I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.
I want to be the European, Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion. I want the full set.
I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care - I'm Olympic champion.
It's like a dream come true, coming to the Olympic trails and leaving being the champion.
There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.
Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
Anything can happen. Everybody is working to be on that team and to win the Olympic Games.
I can freestyle for a while, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer who can go two or three miles.
That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Kurt Angle is an Olympic gold medalist, one of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time.
My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.
When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.
I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.
The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.
It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.
There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Besides wrestling, in my younger years, I also competed in Olympic lifting and power lifting.
I want to become double Olympic champion, triple Olympic champion, five-time world medallist.
At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.
The Olympic Games are a national cause, and a national cause calls for a nationwide attitude.
Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games.
Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.
The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.
I'm thrilled that I was able to share my first Olympic Games experience with my U.S. teammates.
When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.
Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.
When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.
The mistakes you make and lessons you learn at a young age are what gets you to an Olympic level.
No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.
I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.
If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend.
I'm not a big fan of the Olympic Games. The ATP calendar is a bit complex due to the Olympic event.
Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.
We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.