Olympic Participation Quotes

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.

Saudi Arabia's first female athlete will be allowed to compete while wearing a head scarf. The Saudi woman said she was thrilled about the ruling all she needs now is a man to drive her to the Olympics.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time.

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

Fighting at the Olympics has been my lifelong dream, and I cannot believe I am there now.

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

For an athlete myself, it is especially meaningful for our country to host an Olympics. Every athlete hopes to participate in an Olympics, so I still can't believe the games of dreams is going to take place in Korea.

If I wrestle in 2020, I want it to be my own decision and not the IOC's.

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership.

It was a dream come true for me to be at the Olympics.

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.

I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.

I'm a two-time Olympian, but on the front and back end of both of those were two Olympics where I narrowly missed making the team.

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

The thought of being the first openly gay male ever to compete in the Winter Olympics - I totally embrace that.

The very foundation of the modern Olympic revival will be undermined if individual countries are allowed to restrict participation by reason of class, creed, or race

NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years.

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.