#pics

If you work hard and try your best absolutely anyone can do anything. ↗

— Helen Glover British rowing gold medalist London

#inspirational #london-olympics- #inspirational

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances. ↗

— Cameron van der Burgh

#bid #concentrating #distances #focus #going

Bandwagon and all that it is is such a huge passion of mine. We're already bouncing around ideas for season three, what we would call our golden ticket, in terms of a celebrity we would pair up with. We have a few in mind, and a few topics. ↗

— Emma Caulfield

#around #bandwagon #bouncing #call #celebrity

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#anything #attempt #end #i #kinds

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#age #book #entirely #epics #found

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#following #joined #olympics #russell #team

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#get #going #i #i do #just

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#excellence #exists #itself #life #maybe

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#ago #australian #been #first #four

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#olympics #race #real #sydney