The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.

Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.

I remember seeing a story on Olympic swimmer, Ryan Lochte doing strongman workouts. That was awesome.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

I'm looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it's going to take to get there.

I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.

The Olympics is still my greatest achievement... I have many belts, but there is only one Olympic gold.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.

To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

When you win an Olympic gold, it is such a powerful feeling that stays with you for the rest of your life.

So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I'll jot down more goals.

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.

You learn a lot from your first Olympic Games experience. Everyone thinks they're prepared, but you never are.

I think it was just me who thought I could be Olympic champion. I've been telling myself that, and I did that.

To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They're so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.

I'd like to do some modelling. But I will go on with pentathlon until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.

Ever since I was a kid and all the time I have played in the NHL, NHL players have played in the Olympic Games.

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

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