Quotes on Olympic Athlete

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.