Shani Davis Quotes (39 Quotes)

I didn't expect anything less from Chad. He is very experienced and he has been in this position thousands and thousands of times.

I'll be honest with you. Sure, Chad and I are fighting for the same thing. But it would have been kind of nice after I won the 1,000 if he would have been a good teammate and shook my hand.

This is not a heavyweight boxing fight.

They have no idea how to prepare the ice. It changes every day and no one knows what will happen once the venue is full of spectators. It's the same for everyone though, so it's an open game.

I'm not a team player. The team pursuit was the race before the 1000 meters, so it's silly. People do what's best for them. I had the opportunity to win the 1,000 meters and I was focused on that. You have to ask Chad Hedrick if he would have run the team pursuit if it was the day before the 5,000 meters.

I love my city. I love baseball. I love the White Sox. That's a lot of patriotic things.

We're a very competitive country. We want the best of the best. But as an athlete, you can't allow that to put pressure on you. You just have to be your own person and do what you can to find success for you.

It showed that all the hard work and all the sacrifice paid off. Kids in general, if you put your mind to it and you believe it, you can achieve it.

My obligation is to my sponsor.

You've got to be tough. People are skating really well, and you've got to go out there and know you're a tough dude.

I knew what I was getting myself into before I started this. I knew it was going to be fierce competition. If it's meant to be, I'll make the team. If not, I tried my best.

It started to become a soap opera in there, so I decided to leave.

He skated a beautiful race. He was the best today ... I am very proud of him, he's a champion.

I'm just throwing it out there. It would have been nice if after the 1,000-meter he could have been a good teammate and shook my hand, just like I shook his hand and hugged him after he won the 5,000.

I am upset because I didn't take advantage of the opportunity of being in the last pair and being able to really go for it.

If someone wanted to put on a celebrity boxing match, I think I could take him. I know he's from Texas, so he's gotta be tough, but I used to have a pretty nice jab until I retired it in high school.

Things have been really tough for me. . . . It's been a really, really rough road. But I always knew, deep down inside, that I was a good skater.

Shakes my hand when I lose. Typical Chad.

I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That's not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It's not needed. I'm already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the (medal) podium.

I've trained all my life for this. If it's meant to be, I'll make the team. If not, I'll know I tried my best.

Joey almost gave me a heart attack when I saw how fast he was going.

If what I do creates a common interest among certain people to try something different, great. Whatever comes from what I do is a bonus. But I'm just trying to win. People will make their own choices, anyway.

Michael Jordan's sport is done everywhere in the world.

I really don't consider this a defeat because I am skating better and better every race.

I have a lot of respect for Chad. I want to see Chad do well. We're competitive but it's not about being competitive with Chad right now. It's just going out there and doing the best that you can as an individual and being able to accomplish the dream tha

I'm one of a kind. I'm a different type of person. I have a different charisma. A lot of people don't understand me.

This is where you do it. This is once every four years. and there's no telling if you'll ever have the opportunity, because there's always going to be somebody else coming. So, I did what I had to do.

It's tough, but I knew what I was getting myself into before I took the challenge. I'm happy that I didn't back down from the challenge of trying to chase my dreams and goals.

The competition is not over. Lord knows what can happen. It's short track, so I just try to stay positive and I just keep on trying to push and exert all that energy out of my body. The rest is history.

Because it's an improvement. As long as I'm improving, I'm pretty happy if it's a world record or a rink record.

No one loves you more than your mother. It's like on the Discovery Channel where you see a bald eagle do everything it can to protect its young. People can say whatever they want, but it's a sticks-and-stones thing.

I have a lot of respect for Chad. For someone to come over (from in-line skating) and do what he's done for the sport is unfathomable. You wouldn't expect someone to be so versatile, especially at his age (28). I want to see Chad do well. But we're all fighting for the same thing. It's normal to have hard feelings sometimes.

To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it.

I can be really fast, but other people are in the race. So you've got to be able to maneuver around those guys, and you have to be a little more versatile out there on the ice. I bring my fitness that I gained from the long track over to here. Hopefully, I'll be able to put it to good use.

I've been training all year for the 1,000 meters. I want to give myself the best opportunity in the 1,000. Skating the pursuit would take away from that. It's not a difficult decision.

I always wanted to be on the Olympic medal dias. It's a great feeling. It's a reward for all the hard work I have done, I don't think I will have any sleep tonight.

He's on the top floor and I'm on the first floor. I mind my business and he minds his business and whatever's whatever.

Chad's awesome. I hope he does great in all his races.

This is awesome. After all the controversy and tension at the Olympics, I wanted to show people at home that my priority is skating.