David Rudisha Quotes

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

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

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.

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

I led the world the whole year until the trials. I was in Birmingham, U.K. Broke the meet record, had the meet won already, beat the 2012 Olympic champion in long jump that day. It was a big moment. On the last jump, I blew it. Blew my hamstring.

I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.

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

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

My goal is one individual gold. I know how hard it is: you have to have a good day; there can also be some problems with the weather.

I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

Looking back, I feel very fortunate to have had such a long career. Many skaters end their careers in their early 20s. I had the opportunity to go to two Olympic Games - almost three after being the alternate in 1994 and then in 2006 being injured.

Sometimes I want to be a normal kid and go to the beach, but it's so motivating to think about going to the Olympics again. I'll only be 22 years old after Rio, and I can do whatever I want.

I look back, in an endearing way, on that time of my life when I was competing at the Olympics.

I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.

I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my hand at bobsled. They'd seen it on TV at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 and thought it would be a good sport for me.

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

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing feeling.

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport I was involved in, I wanted to go to the Olympics for that!

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They're so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.