Dwane Casey Quotes

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there.

I was as popular as you can be - All-NBA, Olympian. You couldn't get any higher than where I was.

I think every player aspires to challenge themselves against the very best and that's what I'm hoping to do.

I was the head girl in school and also a national level basketball player.

My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,'I appreciate it, but man, please don't congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you're not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you're trying to win it all.'

In life, there are really complex, difficult jobs, and some are more complicated and difficult than others. But when you look around at inventions, or records that have been broken, you have to tell yourself that anything is possible.

As a young player, achieving All-Star status isn't as easy as you might think.

Normally, my goal is to get past the first round, because that's the hardest.

When I see players like Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Robinson Cano, and Miguel Cabrera, I see they have a good season, but they also jump up the next year and do it over and over again. I want to be one of those players that do it every year.

It is not easy to get out of it. It is much nicer to be fighting at the top of the league but it is only nicer if you can get something at the end of it.

So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog.

I would say that Breaking2 was my best race because I was running against something no one had done before.

For anyone that's reached the NFL, especially top picks, you just come from success.

I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.

I don't believe being a Hall of Famer is based on individual accolades. I think winning has a lot to do with it. But perhaps more than that, you simply have to show that you are the best or among the best at what you do.

I've broken through many walls and glass ceilings.

For me, it was the right decision to go to United, because going to the top of the mountain was my dream, especially when you come from Eastern Europe, from a small town, and no one's done it before you.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.