Gracie Gold Quotes

It is never the case that I will push myself more for the World Championships and play differently in a Super Series or vice-versa.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

The most important thing in any contest is finding your rhythm and making your body work for you.

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

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

I'm not feeling much pressure for the Olympics because I think I already have done many things in my career. I will try to enjoy my second Olympics.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

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.

You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.

For me, I just love running in the big moments. That's always been the way. That is what you work so hard for. You don't work hard to run fast in practice or to run fast at small meets.

There was a time where I was on top of the world, an Olympic hopeful.

For me, every tournament is important, and I feel that if I don't go into them with 100 per cent focus, I will not be ready for the Grand Slams.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

For all my 'Eddie the Eagle' goofing around before the camera while in training for the Calgary Olympics in 1988, I was never less than 100 per cent serious on every single jump.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

Yes, I could win the Olympics. I hope to, and that's what I'm training for. But it's really going to come down to me racing on that day... Just being really calm and mature about what the reality is - that's my strategy.

My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.