Achieve Quote by Mark Cavendish

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

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing…

— David Rudisha

In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.

— Alex Zanardi

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

— Eric Shanteau

If I wouldn't have medaled at the Olympics, it still would have been a successful trip. The medal is the icing on the cake.

— Eddy Alvarez

Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a…

— Danilo Di Luca

The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.

— Dominic Thiem

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

— Paula Radcliffe

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been…

— Paula Radcliffe

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

— Mikaela Shiffrin

There was a time in my life I wanted that Olympic medal, and all I did was train, train, train and work harder than…

— Yoel Romero