Bonnie Blair Quotes

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

— Bonnie Blair

“Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.”

— Bonnie Blair

“I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.”

— Bonnie Blair

“What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.”

— Bonnie Blair

“Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.”

— Bonnie Blair

“Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.”

— Bonnie Blair

“No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.”

— Bonnie Blair

You have to have the right mind-set.

— Bonnie Blair

“I don't fear anything.”

— Bonnie Blair

“My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.”

— Bonnie Blair

“I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.”

— Bonnie Blair

“I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.”

— Bonnie Blair

“My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.”

— Bonnie Blair

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

— Bonnie Blair

“The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.”

— Bonnie Blair

“This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.”

— Bonnie Blair

“I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.”

— Bonnie Blair

“I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.”

— Bonnie Blair

“I will remember all the days at the Olympics.”

— Bonnie Blair

“I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.”

— Bonnie Blair

“It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.”

— Bonnie Blair

“I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.”

— Bonnie Blair

“Four key words
helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.”

— Bonnie Blair

“Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport”

— Bonnie Blair

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

— Bonnie Blair

“There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.”

— Bonnie Blair