I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.
Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.
I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time
I didn't know how I was going to get to the Olympics, and in the beginning, I didn't really care. And that was the best part, because my desire exposed me to so many different sports, and in all of them, I always dedicated my best effort because I knew that's what it was going to take to become an Olympian.
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.
One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.
I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.
I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.
Even my bio on Instagram is like, 'That girl that fell at the Olympics. ' Just as a joke. Because that's how people come up to me and that's what they say. That's how they remember me.
I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.
The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.
I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!
I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city, and that's how they got the Olympics. I mean, they said, "We're the most cosmopolitan city on Earth," but it doesn't feel English.
Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.
At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.
[Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they could [invest] in a Formula One race, they don't want to do it.
I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.