Kelley O'Hara Quotes

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

I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

It always has been a goal of mine to compete in the Olympics. Right after I graduated from college, I moved out to Salt Lake City with my mind focused on making the 2014 team.

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 hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

Ever since I started skating, making the Olympic team was my ultimate dream. It's what has inspired and motivated me throughout my entire career.

As an athlete, my first Olympic experience was Sydney 2000. I remember seeing people getting medals, and I thought, 'Wow, that's where I want to be.'

I'd like to be a three-time Olympian.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

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

My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

I dreamed really big when I was little.

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

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

It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day, I'm going to have my own star.'

Personally, just being able to compete in an Olympics, being part of an Opening Ceremony wearing a green jacket with the rest of the Australian Olympic team, would be a more than a dream come true.

The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning.

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

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.