Debi Thomas Quotes

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

Let women rather confine herself to the lighters and more graceful forms of gymnastics and athletics, and make herself supreme along these lines as she has already done in aesthetic dancing. Let her know enough about the rougher sports to be the sympathetic admirer of men and boys in their efforts to be strong, vigorous, and heroes.

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

Skating has given me so many opportunities.

I have so much passion for the game.

I have so much to give to skating in Canada.

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

Watching boxer Dingko Singh's performance at the Asian Games, Bangkok, where he won gold, was the defining moment. I was 15 and enjoyed sports more than anything else. Singh's performance changed my life and inspired me to follow boxing.

The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

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

My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.

In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton - two sports every season - and I was named female athlete of the year twice.

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

I ran track and played football... I was an all-American.