David Rudisha Quotes

For me, every practice and match I've played, it feels like the year is short and long at the same time. I'm aware of all the work I put in.

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.

I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.

When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

My first game went very well. My teammates told me to be quiet and not to put pressure on myself. I hope to do even more in the future and start scoring goals.

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 didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics.

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

I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

Olympics is everyone's dream.

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'

I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.

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.

Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.