Anything Quote by Cathy Rigby

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

— 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

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

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their…

— Sebastian Coe

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

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always…

— Rafer Johnson

Being 16 is such a great age because I'm still really young, and I'll still have a lot of chances. But the Olympics only…

— Mirai Nagasu

As Olympic athletes, we have a responsibility to be positive role models to today's youth.

— Elana Meyers

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you…

— Natalie Coughlin

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to…

— Lolo Jones

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