When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.
Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
I want to set myself as a real legend in the sport, like Phelps and Mark Spitz are remembered worldwide. I want people to say, like they say of Ronaldo that he is the best soccer player in the world, I want them to say Chad Le Clos is the best swimmer in the world.
I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.
I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps
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.
I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.
I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.
It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Popov was double Olympic champion in '92 and '96, and then Gary Hall came along and won in 2000 and 2004, and I would be the next on the list. That's a good goal, to have my name on that list alongside these guys.
When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
Honestly, I would love to fight Henry Cejudo. You've got that gold medalist in the Olympics, I would love to test myself against that.
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.
Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.
I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.
Bolt put the Mobot on the map, to be honest with you! He's just an amazing guy.
It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.
1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.
I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
