Tara Lipinski Quotes

Going to the Olympics would have been great.

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.

I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.

Someone told me I looked like a young Tonya Harding recently, as if 'young' would soften the blow.

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

My job is to just make winning plays when I'm out on the court, and hopefully we're winning. That's all I want.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

I have always dreamt of going to an Olympics and watching these incredible athletes and being motivated and inspired to want to be successful in my own sport.

Look, I do not control alpinism. But maybe I was too successful. Many in the mountaineering scene - journalists, second-rate climbers, lecturers, so-called historians - had a problem with me for many years.

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.

Do I want to be the best defender in Europe? Of course. Any defender will tell you that - who wouldn't want to be the best?

I think winning games is my biggest asset, knowing how to win.

Tennis is a very interesting world. It's a sport of opportunities, but it's a sport of challenges as well. And for anybody to continue to progress, they have to understand what those challenges are.

I've played in the big games and I've done well.

Everyone wants respect from your peers and from fans. No better way to do it than beat Miguel Torres.

My goal is to peak big in Rio because my goal is to win gold.

I wasn't jumping like Carl Lewis, but I still won an Olympic title.

I play to win. And if I string together four of my best rounds at the Masters then there's no doubt about it - I will wear the jacket.

I take a lot of pride in my first '92 gold medal.

I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.

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.

Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.

More than I've wanted anything, I've wanted to do well at the X Games.

If I become a European champion, I don't care whether I have absolute recognition or not.