Believed Quote by Edwin Moses

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

— Shawn Johnson

I knew I would try for the Tokyo Olympics back in 2016. I was sitting in the stands as an alternate at the Rio…

— MyKayla Skinner

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

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

In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I…

— Sebastian Coe

We went out there as a team and believed we could win. I am an Olympic champion.

— Mark Lewis-Francis

In 2010, I was 17 or 18 and thought, 'Yeah, the Olympics, that might happen.'

— Ashley Wagner

I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.

— Brooke Sweat

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

— Sally Pearson

There was a time where I was on top of the world, an Olympic hopeful.

— Katelyn Ohashi

I didn't even think that I could be competing for a gold medal; I was convinced I'd compete for a silver medal.

— Sunisa Lee

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before…

— Olga Korbut