There are tons of great names who have gotten fourth at their first Olympics, and they just kept with it for the next quad. I'm among good company.
If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.
Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.
Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.
Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.
Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
The Terminator: [in the voice of the police officer] This is 1-L19. Westbound on Olympic approaching Overland.
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.
If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.
