I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I thought, 'I must absorb their awesomeness.' That was my goal from when I was seven. I told my coach, 'I'm going to the Olympics.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.
I started Little Athletics when I was five years old, but my Olympics dream started when I was 10 years old.
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great.
My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.
When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.
I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'
As a kid growing up, I was never like, 'I want to go to the Olympics,' so having to pass on 2012 because I was too young didn't bother me at all.