Steve Alford Quotes

Olympics is everyone's dream.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil Ford and Mike O'Koren in 1976.

I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

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

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

I had a lot of wonderful accomplishments in the game of basketball. Of course, to win a gold medal for your country - it doesn't get any better than that.

I'm going to win a gold medal.

The Olympics is a dream of mine.

As a thrill in my career, the Olympics rank right up there with my two NCAA championships at Duke.

As someone who has carved out a career in this league by making winning plays, being tough on defense and just generally doing the dirty work for my team, I always hesitate to say any player is unguardable. I just hate that term.

I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.

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

The Olympics are in my blood and everybody knows how much I love my country.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

If I didn't love the game, why would I play at the University of Kentucky? Why would I ever come here? It's a serious program.

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

My target is to score in every match here at the 2012 Olympics. I am hoping to land on target with my penalty corner shots at crucial moments.

It's basketball. At the end of the day everyone wants to win, and that's really the reason why we play is to win.

Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious moments.

It's part of the reason I went to Duke. Coach K came to me. He saw everything but the dunks. He was like, 'It's a dunk. It's two points. Who cares?' He saw every other part of my game that I wanted the world to see.

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