Tom Daley Quotes

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.

People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't have that kind of transition and always stayed on top.

It gets a little tough when you're cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself ready to peak for your fight.

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

I'm always impressed by how fighters can compartmentalize their lives before big fights.

I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.'

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

The last week before a fight always goes really slow.

Yes, I could win the Olympics. I hope to, and that's what I'm training for. But it's really going to come down to me racing on that day... Just being really calm and mature about what the reality is - that's my strategy.

In spring training, I just try to spread everything out so I can be 100 percent before the season starts. I don't want to start feeling like I don't get it once the season starts. I want to be 100 percent on Opening Day.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

Maybe I wish I could be out there on the big occasions playing like I did at my peak, but I certainly don't miss the six and seven hours a day practice that went hand in hand with being world champion in the nineties - or losing to guys knowing that it would never have happened when I was at my best.

You have to get yourself right for the Worlds. If you can't get yourself right for that you shouldn't be playing.

In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she's crying tears of joy because she's so excited about the life we have together. I'm preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.

I just have to bring the energy and play my game.

It's always something that's played on my mind, being an Olympian, so hopefully we get there and do the job at the World Cup.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.