I know there's life after the Olympics.
The Olympics must be my curse or something.
Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.
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.
You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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.
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.
The Olympics are getting mixed reviews. People are angry at NBC for showing a promo that revealed the winner of a swimming event even though the race hadn't aired yet. NBC apologized saying, 'We're just not used to people watching our network. '
I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.
The Olympics unite the world and inspire us to be a better version of ourselves. The competitions motivate the spectators, and the athletes' message is: You should have more confidence in your ability to achieve things, you should dream more.
[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.
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
Before the Olympics, there's always been a part of me that's wanted to write a book about Women's cycling because there isn't one out there and I think there's a lot to be said.
Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.
My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport.
Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.
I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.