Jack Rodwell Quotes

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

It is an honor to represent my country in the Olympics.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

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.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in 2016, and even win a medal, it will be fantastic.

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the medal unless someone asks about it.

My father represented India at the Olympics, and I also want to do that.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

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

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

It has always been a dream to win either the Olympic gold medal or the World Cup.

The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world.