Attention Quote by Dan O'Brien

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

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that…

— Dan O'Brien

I was an athlete when I was young and devoted a lot of time to sports.

— Mimi Chakraborty

The first time I won a medal in the all-around competition is when I realized that's what I wanted to do pretty much for…

— Sam Mikulak

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport…

— Gretchen Bleiler

I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know…

— Elana Meyers

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only…

— Peter Snell

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 I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

— Takeru Kobayashi

I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I…

— Apolo Ohno

I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to…

— Eddy Alvarez

If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to…

— Allyson Felix