Ashley Wagner Quotes

The Olympic Games and the World Championships will be my big goals.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.

I didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics.

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

I look back, in an endearing way, on that time of my life when I was competing at the Olympics.

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.

You are under some sort of pressure to win any match. It is natural.

I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

My one and only focus at the Olympic Games is to win a gold medal.

It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done a hundred times, and if you do it, you'll win. Or if you're a swimmer, if you swim a certain time, you will win. In BMX, there are no guarantees.

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.

I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.

After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.

It's hard because, throughout your whole career, you're known as the top player, the best on your team, you're playing the most minutes, and then you might not get in the game. You don't know when you're going to get in the game.

If you've got the best record, you're going to be the favourite. So you've got to play as the favourite with a bullseye on your back.

People expect that you will play well and score a lot of goals, but it is not always possible.

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport I was involved in, I wanted to go to the Olympics for that!

This is my third year in a row where I'm one of those players that has a chance to win the Race to Dubai. I just think it's important this year that I take the experiences of 2017 and 2018 into it and know that it still takes a lot to do it and it's not in my hands at all.

I think being world number one and world champion, pressure comes with that.