A Quote by Alex Zanardi
In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.
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I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.
I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.
Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.
I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure intentions. I came from a true sport, an Olympic background, winning multiple national, international and Olympic medals. So I entered MMA as a sport.
To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.
That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.
Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
I would have loved to sneak off and watch some of the horse events at the Paralympics and I know Lee Pearson, who's the Olympic gold medallist in para-equestrianism, but because I was competing in the pool I had to watch it on TV.
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