Ashley Wagner Quotes

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

When you get older, you realise it's all about winning games and winning trophies.

It feels so good to be the World Athlete of the Year.

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

Yeah, I think about the Hall of Fame.

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

A world championship medal on the road is something that I'm missing from my CV.

I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

If I become a European champion, I don't care whether I have absolute recognition or not.

I want to win trophies. That's the most important thing.

I want to win titles, titles, titles.

I've always had the ambition to win a lot of trophies.

In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.