Age Quote by Caroline Buchanan

Even when you're a kid you're already reading about Olympic Games. Then when you are growing up you start to understand what it is...…

— Andrey Rublev

It's important that the Olympics are motivating to young people and inspiring to all, and the only way to do that is to ensure…

— Elana Meyers

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.

— Cathy Rigby

You learn a lot from your first Olympic Games experience. Everyone thinks they're prepared, but you never are.

— Caroline Buchanan

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even…

— Richard M. Daley

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

A lot of kids my age can make a lot of mistakes, but college athletes that are in the spotlight, you have to grow…

— Willie Cauley-Stein

When you're young, you make mistakes. But eventually you learn from them.

— Marc Gasol

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

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

— Kerri Walsh

Learning through mistakes as a young team can happen, but then make different mistakes.

— Ricky Rubio

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against…

— Lindsey Vonn