Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

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

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.

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.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

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

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.

I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.

While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.

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.

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

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.

My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

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.

Olympics is everyone's dream.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

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

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.

The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.