"I am so speechless right now. I didn't know what my reaction would be, and then that just happened. I'm so, so grateful for all the support I had today. This is by far the biggest court I've played on. I think I coped quite well in the beginning, I just tried to hold my nerve. When I was packing to come into the bubble, my parents said, 'Aren't you packing too much match kit?' I think I'm going to have to do some laundry tonight."

"We have to learn to adapt wherever we found ourselves."

"She is in no doubt an exciting attacker – technically unbelievable, great pace – who can scale the summit of the beautiful game."

"I think she has the potential to be one of the best players in the world-Nigeria coach Randy Waldrum."

"Education is very important because you can fall back to it after you are done playing football."

"Even when things are not going in your direction, you just have to learn to adapt."

"When Good things happen, you have to know the right time to make a move. When you believe in God, things align and fall into place."

"Every story, every adventure has and must have an ending."

"And then can I have the naked chef David Beckham?"

"Setting new national records was an indication that athletes were at their peak performance and that the upcoming national meets would be mouthwatering with the positive performance."

"Remember someone saying that I'm a giant in Africa, but a wounded lion on the world stage."

"Hard work pays. Tobi is a hardworking girl who believes so much in herself and her coach (Jamaica's Lacena Golden-Clark). She didn’t give up after coming close to making the podium twice, first at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar in 2019 where she came fourth and at the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan where she also came fourth, losing by the narrowest of margins, especially in 2019. She never doubted herself or her coach."

"This is good news for Nigerian athletics and sports in general and I pray and hope it inspires this generation of sports men and women of this generation and other generations to come."

"Physically, I think I was ready, but mentally I wasn’t. I think my mentality let me down."

"At this moment, Kendra owns the record and I don’t have any but she doesn’t have two heads. It will be good for me to run a PR or break the world record if she is not careful–just kidding…"

"Unknown now, but I will be UNFORGETTABLE … I will Persist until I SUCCEED …."

"The goal was to come out and to win this gold, Honestly, I believe in my abilities, but I was not expecting a world record at these championships."

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"Basketball For Good means using basketball to a greater end. Basketball is a sport but it is a lot more than just getting on the court and do everything you can do to win."

"Women have that hurdle to deal with which male journalist do not necessarily have. and just to add on to this, it is just that to find that people have a certain perspective about women, that if a woman is been given a certain position based on their merit it now becomes an issue of who she sleeping with, and that is something that is really hard to swallow or even escape but it is up to us to that people understand that women can perform based on their merit."

""Women such as Peggy Serame who continue to shifting and serving society and breaking glass ceilings as well as my husband who allows me to be unapologetically myself at all times!”"

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"Never let emotions tough your soul and change your view of the world."

"I always put me first because if i am not fulfilled, there is no way that i can do everything else."

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"Bless teachers. They have a special place in heaven."

"I will definitely continue diving if my body allows me, so I will keep training hard, keep competing and hopefully represent China more and win more titles for China."

"One year ago I was not doing that well. I'm very thankful that I didn't give up."

"I have to really take care of my mental state and make sure I don't get into a depression. I have worked with a psychiatrist or psychologist who helped me quite a bit with some of the mental stresses of being a competitive diver and dealing with depression and things like that."

"I don’t want to waste time thinking about the result."

"I enjoy watching other sports, like tennis and golf. I’ve only played golf once, but I like it very much. I want to distract myself from diving and learn what great athletes mean to be great. Like Roger Federer, Tiger Woods and the others."

"I should be grateful for the difficulties and challenges I experienced. I felt I am stronger and tougher in mind. And that is why I want to praise myself."

"Every dive was a fear for me and I had to face all those fears one by one. I was terribly afraid that I could not dive and I could not eat and sleep well during those days. But I was very lucky, I had a great and strong team with me. Everyone in the team helped me, motivated me and encouraged me to tackle the difficulties. That is the reason why I give myself full marks for 2019, because I overcame my fears and weaknesses from the previous season and had an enlightened 2019. I am proud of myself."

"There are two of me in my mental state that actually fight with one another. Part of me says ‘you’re a gold medallist, you can take a break, you can be done’. Another part of me says ‘you can’t give this up, you love diving’."

"I feel that if we could give 100 percent effort, that is the what the Olympics are about. We cannot predict the results, but I'm happy if we could just enjoy the process."

"I really love diving and I realised that there was no way that I could give it up."

"It is not the gold medal that makes you stronger. It is your courage to face up difficulties and then overcome them on the road leading to the podium. It is easy for one to believe in himself in favorable circumstances, but hard in times of adversity. This might be the difference between excellence and greatness."

"My job is to produce results that match their expectations, and that has been a strong motivating factor for me."

"The aim has always been to play for the country and bring laurels. It remains the same."

"I hope there will be many more Saina Nehwals and Sania Mirzas."

"The one moment that stands out, and I rate it bigger than World No 1 rank, is the medal I won at the London Olympics, 2012 and the Indian national anthem being played in the background. I can’t express the feeling I was going through at that point of time."

"I am friendly with all the players of badminton but on court our attitude change as we prefer not to lose because of these relations."

"My mom and dad are the two strong pillars of my life."

"I have put in so much of hard work all these years, and to see those years of hard work finally bearing fruit now as me being No. 1, is very special. But with this the responsibilities are many fold as expectations keep on rising. However, I have never shied away from giving my best and I will continue to do so in the coming years."

"When I see myself moving on the court, I can see that there is a little bit of a struggle and when things will open up automatically, the results will come."

"I am set to give my best. Yes, to win a medal for India in the Olympics is my dream. But I will go step by step; I will give my hundred percent and leave the rest to God."

"I believe at the international level, it is fitness that counts the most. That’s because when you are competing at that level, everyone already has the skills; the player who wins is the player whose mental and physical fitness is better than his/her opponent. So yes, at the international level, fitness is absolutely paramount."

"I am a professional athlete and pressure is a part of every professional sport. It will be a dream come true for me if I could defeat the Chinese on my way to a medal, so if there’s pressure, there’s also incentive."

"I don't know but from my childhood I had the habit to win whatever I am participating in...in any event. It is not just badminton. I was actually a very aggressive kind of person. I used to play all the sports. So whatever sport I used to play and I used to see someone else getting more points than me ... I just couldn't stand it. .. Even I have to do that."