Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Quotes

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

I think that anybody, once we leave Jamaica, automatically, any citizen becomes an ambassador for the flag, for Jamiaca. It's a country that's so rich in culture. We even have a bobsled team, and we ain't even got snow. We do everything in extreme.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

When I could choose which national team to play for, I could choose between Luxembourg, France, and Bosnia, and I chose Bosnia because I felt it was important to demonstrate, especially to the young people, that a dream can become true.

Philippines, what an amazing honor it has been to carry your name across my chest and to embody you in all aspects.

Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the government because of national pride.

If you represent our country, it should represent us. It's supposed to be a two-way thing, but we live and we learn, and it's getting better.

Being called up to the national team isn't a competition of who's more patriotic.

Representing the U.S.A. is one of the greatest honors of my life, and being able to do it as my authentic self makes it all so much sweeter.

The advantage of playing in Toronto is not playing for one city, you're playing for a country.

The Olympics, you're in front of the world, and yeah you're competing, but you want to look good. You want to have a great representation of who you are.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

I don't know what it is to feel very British, but I feel that it's home, so I'm very happy to represent Great Britain.

My pride at wearing the Irish shirt was always 100 per cent genuine. It was a great honour for myself and my family and something I will always cherish.

I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.

The athlete is not treated like he deserves. We deserve better. I'm not speaking only about the UFC, but about the media as well. The fans treat us really well.

Sometimes at my performances, I see Peruvian flags in the audience. I've never seen, when an Italian sings, people with Italian flags. But with Peru, it's different: because there are not many famous people, they really celebrate the ones they have.

I represent Brazil with the flag and the belt.

Every nation has a flag.

It means a lot to represent your country.

There is nothing more beautiful than being able to represent my country.