71 Quotes by Shani Davis

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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'm pretty satisfied. But all together I'm kind of disappointed with it because technically I'm failing to do certain things.