Paula Radcliffe Quotes

I know everyone has Olympic dreams, but if you really think about it, you just don't want to go to the Olympics. You want to be a gold medalist at the Olympic Games.

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me.

To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.

It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

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.

As a league player, for myself, you strive to win a comp. I'm lucky enough to have achieved that... but most sportspeople would love to go to the Olympics, and I haven't achieved that.

I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.'

I've actually medalled in every single swimming meet except for the Olympics, so that's the goal. I want to get on that podium - I really do. But for me, that's not something I can control... so I will be happy with going out there and swimming a race that I'm proud of.

I'm looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it's going to take to get there.

I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.

It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

This may sound shocking, but I never dreamed about going to the Olympics.

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.