Geeta Phogat Quotes

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

I'm a guy who wins medals rather than runs fast times, so for me, what keeps me going is winning medals for my country and making my nation proud.

I competed in different places all over the world. I represented my country in the Pan-American championships.

Whether at the Olympic Games or during a Davis Cup tie I am extremely proud and honored to represent my country.

I think when you play for your country, in whatever sport it is, that's the biggest accomplishment in the world.

It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

I look back, in an endearing way, on that time of my life when I was competing at the Olympics.

London was the hardest Olympic Games, and before it, I was really just hoping to win a medal, even if it was not the gold medal. At the same time, I have my next target. I am not settling for three golds in a row. I now want to try for a fourth.

I'd love to go to the Olympics. I grew up watching it on TV, and I was always very patriotic and passionate watching that. I'd like to give that back to my country, but I know I can't just walk into the side.

There's a pride in representing your country on a stage like the sport of wrestling, which I've done since I was five years old. There's nothing that can deter me other than my own decision to leave the sport.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

I will try hard to win more medals for the country and make India proud.

It's cool because here everybody has the same goal. We're all competing for our countries. We're all coming down here to do our best. And we all are the best athletes in our own countries.

My target is to get as many call-ups as I can, get as many games as I can and win many trophies with Nigeria.

I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.

I think it's important at the end of the day you know obviously playing in the NBA is a great thing, but representing your country at the highest level is something totally different.

Nigeria has always been my choice if called up, and when they did, I was happy.

I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.

Now I want to play with the Ivory Coast. It has been rewarding, firstly because I am proud to play for my country, then because the Ivorian selection has quality players and has always been a reservoir of talent.

I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at a major tournament.

I play cricket with passion. I just want to win games for the country.