I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'
It's excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!
Rory Breaker: What do you want, a medal? I'll shoot you in the fucking throat if I don't get my ganja back.
[the Cowardly Lion has just received a Courage Medal from the Wizard of Oz] Cowardly Lion: Shucks, folks, I'm speechless. Ha Ha!
The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more...
In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.
My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.
It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.
That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.
The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.
I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.
