Elana Meyers Quotes

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

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.

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.

I do not see my election of 1976 or my defeat in 1980 in the narrow focus of God's will for this specific event. I believe He has a purpose for individual lives as well as for the sweep of human events. He works out those purposes in ways far beyond our understanding. I was His in 1976. I am His in 1980. Now, let's go eat supper.

I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

I'm going to win a gold medal.

You have faith in God, and know he has a plan for me.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.

My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

I have loved Jesus my whole life, and it has been such a privilege for me. To be able to marry my work and God together has been such a blessing.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

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

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.