Geeta Phogat Quotes

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.

I think for me, the most fun competition that I've had was my first Worlds.

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

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

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

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

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.

Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.

I'm a guy who wins medals rather than runs fast times, so for me, what keeps me going is winning medals for my country and making my nation proud.

I want to be European, world and Olympic gold medallist.

A gold medal at the Olympics is hard to top.

My dream is to get gold medal both in the world championship and the Olympics.

To be picked for your country at any stage is a massive honour, and to be at a huge tournament likes the Euros is such a bonus.

It's a privilege and an honor to play for the national team, but I think that the training that I was in at Frankfurt was the highest level right underneath.

I still have ambition to captain England into the 2011 World Cup. I'm very keen to do that job.

I will try hard to win more medals for the country and make India proud.

I'd like not only to test myself against Barcelona, but top teams from the other leagues.

Expectations run immensely high in Croatia. We may only be a small country, but people expect us to be our best at every major tournament.

The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.

People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not.