Conan O'Brien Quotes

Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.

I want to become double Olympic champion, triple Olympic champion, five-time world medallist.

I hope I will get a chance to compete in the Olympics.

Something that I saw in Sochi that I didn't get the opportunity to have in Vancouver was the team holding hands with arms in the air and medals around their neck.

The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.

More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.

When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.

I love the Olympics. Something about the Olympics just makes everything competitive.

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

I love badminton, and representing China is an honour for me.