Caroline Buchanan Quotes

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

Anything can happen. Everybody is working to be on that team and to win the Olympic Games.

Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

In the marathon anything can happen.

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

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

A gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics is what I'm looking for. I have to pace my training in such a way that I'm at my best in Rio, and when I'm in form, no opponent can come in my way.

People don't understand the analogy of football and acting, but there's a great deal of it that's the same. You get dressed in the room, and you think you've got it all prepared, and later on in the game you wish you had put on more pads 'cause they're just kicking the hell out of you. God almighty, I've been beat up by the best.

It's always difficult to win matches.

I try not to make a habit of spending the whole year losing in the first rounds of events, but tennis is one of those sports where nothing is guaranteed.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.

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

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

When I'm competing, I need to be strong.