Shani Davis Quotes

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

Sometimes I want to be a normal kid and go to the beach, but it's so motivating to think about going to the Olympics again. I'll only be 22 years old after Rio, and I can do whatever I want.

I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my hand at bobsled. They'd seen it on TV at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 and thought it would be a good sport for me.

Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that's what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.

All I want to do is get on the pitch and perform, and hopefully, that will do the talking.

Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn't think of being in the Olympics some day.

I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.

I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.

I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.

It doesn't matter if it's Spencer Dinwiddie, Taurean Prince, DeAndre Jordan, I'm trying to win that matchup every time.

The captaincy thing is brilliant, and I love it. But I didn't start off playing cricket to captain England. I wanted to score runs and stuff.

Fighting at the Olympics has been my lifelong dream, and I cannot believe I am there now.

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.