Kevin Durant Quotes

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

I did get to go to the Olympic trials in '88 and '92. I was 7th and 11th, so I didn't place high enough to go to the games, but, still, it was a blast.

Everyone wants to make the Olympics. Everyone wants to pretty much just play on the team or at least try out.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

The goal for me is the Olympics. It's Sochi and doing my best there. And, you know, my best has the potential to be on the podium.

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.

I'm a two-time Olympian, but on the front and back end of both of those were two Olympics where I narrowly missed making the team.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

I'm in Cleveland. I enjoy myself. I enjoy going out and competing at highest level for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.

I didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics.

We are still confident as a team that we will make it through to the final Cup qualifying round.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics.

Ever since they announced that golf would be returning to the Olympics, I thought, 'Hey, I wanna get myself on the team.' It has always been my dream.

This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies.

I have my Grade 1 autobiography that says I'm going to the 2012 Olympic Games, and it has a picture of me on the podium. So, I've known my whole life. It's not something I just thought of. I've known I would be an Olympic athlete; didn't know what sport, but I drew myself in a judo gi.

I've dreamed about going to the Olympics ever since I was young.