Elana Meyers Quotes

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

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport I was involved in, I wanted to go to the Olympics for that!

In 2012, I thought that maybe I could be an Olympic gold medalist. It just came from sitting home and being injured and watching the Olympics on the TV.

I want to play football at a high level.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

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 honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

I push myself to the limit to do what I most like doing, which is playing football.

I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I started Little Athletics when I was five years old, but my Olympics dream started when I was 10 years old.

I love sports, and I'm a hugely competitive person.

At the time, when I was growing up, my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.

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