Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Laura Wilkinson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Laura Wilkinson.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Laura Wilkinson

Laura Ann Wilkinson is an American diver, 3 time Olympian, and Olympic gold medalist. She is the first woman to win the three major diving world titles. Wilkinson retired in 2008. After nine years of retirement, she returned to competition in 2017 and placed 2nd at Nationals. She trained for her fourth Olympic Games (2021) at Texas A&M University’s swimming and diving facilities but did not qualify.

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do! — © Laura Wilkinson
I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
I love overcoming challenges and fear.
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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