A Quote by Grace Gummer

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

Grace Gummer

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Grace Gummer
American - Actress
Born: May 9, 1986

My older sister Celia is an actress as well. She's a little bit older than me. So, in my formative years, she was always performing, and we would always go see her do things. And so, that just made me want to be... like her. Maybe if she was an Olympic swimmer, I would probably be an Olympic swimmer by now as well!

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

My mom was a swimmer growing up. She was World Class.

Brook Lopez

Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.

Alicia Sacramone

I can freestyle for a while, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer who can go two or three miles.

Rulon Gardner

I remember seeing a story on Olympic swimmer, Ryan Lochte doing strongman workouts. That was awesome.

Brian Shaw

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Ryan Lochte

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

Kerri Walsh Jennings

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

Lloyd Blankfein

My perspective of capitalism growing up in Berkeley, Calif. in a low-income project, growing up poor, is that capitalism wanted to destroy me, they wanted me to become a worker.

Lil B

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

Simone Biles

I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.

Cody Simpson

The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.

Timothy O'Donnell

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

Scott Speedman

At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

Nastia Liukin

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

Saina Nehwal

Growing up, I was a Detroit Pistons fan, being from Flint. During not the Bad Boys but Chauncey Billups and Ben Wallace era, and growing up, I always wanted to be a Piston.

Kyle Kuzma

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