Katee Sackhoff Quotes

My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.

Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.

A lot of people don't realise how competitive college sprinting is.

One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.

I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

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

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

I want to continue the sport of swimming. I'm not going to give up until I think it's reached where I want it to go.

My dream was to play football at Notre Dame more than anything.

To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They're so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.

Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that's what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.

I didn't really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.

I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

It's always been a dream of mine to be an Olympian.

There's not that many great swimmers from Brooklyn.