Cesar Cielo Quotes

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.

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.

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

I think there is no defending a title. You don't go into a season with a points advantage over anyone. So I don't think it's ever a title defence. I think you've got a different number on your bike, if you choose so, but everyone starts at zero again.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

On the field, everyone is equal.

I really wanted to come into the Olympics.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

It doesn't matter who you play - you can win against anyone; you can lose against anyone.

When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that's where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.

My target is to score in every match here at the 2012 Olympics. I am hoping to land on target with my penalty corner shots at crucial moments.

Each tournament is equally important.

I feel I can concentrate a bit more on playing darts now people are just seeing an equal playing field.

Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.