I want to meddle with an Olympic medal made of silver metal. I want to alchemize it into gold, and use a mixture of science and mysticism to transform losing into winning.

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.

I’ve never been cocky. Even right now I don’t like to talk about the Olympics.

Someone who doesn’t make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn’t act...

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

I know I’m in the finals and that’s good. It’s going to be fun no matter where I end up. It’s great saying I made it to the Olympics.

There was very little that wasn’t on the table to get their vote, … It’s wrong. It’s called ethics. Votes were for sale… It muddies the name of the Olympics.

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

Invest your energy in the things you can control.

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don’t get the Olympics.

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.

We definitely saw the parallels between girls working in a man’s world. And the idea of making the Olympics appeal to a younger generation.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

My eyes are bronze, my hair is turning silver, and my heart is gold. Oh, and my love for you belongs in the Olympics, because it’s Special.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

To think is good. To obsess is bad.

I treated the last Olympics as a big international event. This time I want to treat it as a place to express myself. I want to show what I have, to entertain rather than just...

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.

Olympics is everyone’s dream.

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be...

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.

People tell me I have a winning smile, but it’s just not true. My grin took silver at last year’s Facial Expression Olympics.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

I feel I’m really focused on the Olympics. [The selection process] is over and I’m looking [toward the] next competition.

Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.

These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.

Bricks, bricks, and bricks could be used instead of gold, silver, and bronze medals in the Olympics. If all an athlete cares about is winning, then I’ll take the precious metal off the international communities’...

I’m actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

If not you, who?

We have played in World Cups, world championships and Olympics. The message is already out there. … In Cuba, baseball is the No. 1 sport. People in Cuba had their doubts about us coming and...

There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do...

Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.

We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever won silver. We came through there, and we think we can do it again at...

I had a dream about you. We picked up where we left off, with leftovers, and I said this was the best second-time dinner I’ve ever had a first time. Oh, I had it before,...

Success is simply never giving in to failure – either in mind or body.

If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.

The National Games is a warm-up for the 2008 Olympics. A good result at the 2008 Olympics is our ultimate goal.

The only reason guys wanna play pool with girls is to see you leaning over the table, looking sexy. Not that I wouldn’t enjoy that… immensely.” – Chris

See it, feel it, trust it!

Now my Olympics can begin. I have this anger in me and I want to show them all.

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

He’s got one of those goals that’s way higher than high school. He’s so focused on making it to the Olympics. He’s one of those rare kids that only come around so often. I absolutely...

It’s really difficult to predict what the future is going to bring. Right now the Olympics garners a premium in both rights fees and ad buys because it is able to attract and sustain an...

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.