Cameron van der Burgh Quotes

I have had a magnificent run.

I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

I slept with my gold medal.

It's kind of like I won a gold medal with my family.

Don't expect me to be some indie schmindie embarrassed about my success.

This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.

I don't trust too much in personal trophies.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

It's nice to win.

Winning tastes good.

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.

In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

I always say that every win has something that is special.

It's dead nice to know I've achieved something.

There have been great things that happened to me.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.