Sasha Cohen Quotes

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

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.

I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.

That's why I play basketball. To play a lot of minutes, and to help my team win.

I live to be in these matches.

A football player at any level must set goals.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I'll jot down more goals.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

Sports is my life, and I live for it.

I would like to get some points across about my sport and hopefully people can understand it a bit more and appreciate what goes into it, instead of being monkey in a cage.

It was always the goal to score as many goals as I can. But every year is harder and harder.

To be an Olympian - not many people can say that. But first of all, I've got to make the team, and I know a lot of hard work is going to go into it, so hopefully it pays off.

I focus on playing football, and there are many battles you have to think about and which must be won.

Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

Sports is my passion.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.