Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.

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

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

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.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.

I look forward to competing.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation.