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Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

I was so proud to have the chance to be able to represent Canada at the Olympics in Vancouver.

I've always said the Olympics are special to me.

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.

I know everyone has Olympic dreams, but if you really think about it, you just don't want to go to the Olympics. You want to be a gold medalist at the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

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 benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

My father represented India at the Olympics, and I also want to do that.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.