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It wasn't an easy journey to participating in the Olympics. It has taken me 14 years of training and hard work.

— Dutee Chand

My dad saw it as a goal before I did, when I was 12 years old. I didn't think competing in Olympics was possible…

— Bonnie Blair

I trained my whole life for the Olympics. I didn't have a childhood, I really couldn't go to the beach with my friends. Couldn't…

— Claressa Shields

Getting to the Olympics was the hard part.

— Mirai Nagasu

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

— Eddie the Eagle

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four…

— Mary Lou Retton

The Olympics were something that was put in my path. I knew I was capable, I worked so hard for it, so I guess…

— Katelyn Ohashi

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today…

— Oscar Robertson

I remember watching the summer Olympics as a kid and knew that I wanted to be an Olympian one day. At the time, snowboarding…

— Jamie Anderson

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson…

— Vera Wang

And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more…

— Shannon Miller

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

— Simone Biles