If you could play in the Olympics or sit on your couch and watch at home, what would you do? It was that simple. This is basketball; it’s not war.
I’m not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I’m gone, I’m gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.
You can’t enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.
Not a day goes by that I don’t remember my experience at the Olympics.
I’ve played in four Olympics. I’m grateful for that.
It eventually ends, and that’s what I think a lot of athletes forget. It’s 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that’s great, but no one cares.
We will work as if the PyeongChang Olympics is jointly hosted by Gangwon Province and Seoul.
Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.
Olympics is the ultimate target and I could not do well in the 2016 Games.
After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me – and people would listen.
Working with WWE on our many community outreach programs like Special Olympics and Connor’s Cure gives me the most inspiring stories to tell about human resilience.
Through everything I’ve gone through- and I’ve been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk – I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
It would be nice to do a winter and a summer Olympics in the same cycle.
Since the Olympics in London, people say, ‘Greg’s won again. That’s what we all expect. Of course he wins.’
Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC’s refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They’re lousy to watch.
After the ’96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.
Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics – especially with the chance I’ve got.
