American Quote by Rulon Gardner

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

— Cathy Rigby

That's the neat thing about the Olympics - so many of these athletes, they don't make a ton of money, they train for four…

— Julie Foudy

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect…

— Ai Weiwei

We shouldn't be fixated to one sport. The Olympics come once in four years, and every athlete works very hard towards that. It's so…

— Abhinav Bindra

The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.

— Hima Das

I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.

— Rulon Gardner

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic…

— Richard Attias

The Olympics is about representing your country, and if you get an opportunity to play you give it all you have.

— P.K. Subban

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

— Dan Gable

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

— Ali Krieger

Everyone wants to make the Olympics. Everyone wants to pretty much just play on the team or at least try out.

— Collin Sexton

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're…

— Tina Maze