Day Quote by Andrey Rublev

When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived up exactly…

— Laurie Hernandez

My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.

— Tim Henman

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

— Marion Jones

It's every kid's dream to be able to grow up and win a gold medal and make a bunch of money and give back…

— Jerami Grant

The mistakes you make and lessons you learn at a young age are what gets you to an Olympic level.

— Caroline Buchanan

I grew up watching as much Olympics as I could, checking out all the sports. As a kid, you dream of playing your sport…

— Jack Sock

You hit one level of the sport, and then you want to get to the next level. Until, eventually, the Olympics becomes part of…

— Mitch Gaylord

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.

— Sasha Cohen

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and…

— Dorothy Hamill

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

— Kerri Walsh

Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get…

— Lolo Jones

An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid,…

— Hannah Kearney