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“I am the greatest.”

— Usain Bolt, foxsports.com.au

“My balls hurt, but my arms hurt more ... not sure what to ice first. Prepare some beers boys, I am thirsty after that.”

— Jarrod Poort, foxsports.com.au

“It is so hard to be able to achieve something so big and not be able to share it with someone who is so close.”

— Melissa Wu, foxsports.com.au

“My doping is training. My doping is Jesus. Otherwise, I’m crystal clean.”

— Almaz Ayana’, foxsports.com.au

“There were definitely sloppy moments for us, and ones that will haunt us for the next four years.”

— Erin Phillips, foxsports.com.au

“I think the biggest thing is understanding how much pride and passion each of these boys had to put on the green and gold ... I just hope everyone back at home could feel they were on the journey with us. It was one helluva journey.”

— Patty Mills, foxsports.com.au

“I’m not going to judge a lifetime of success by a maybe less-than-perfect performance at the end.”

— Victoria Pendleton, foxsports.com.au

“The perfectionist in me, the elite athlete I’ve been for so long, just finds it really hard to comprehend that result.”

— Anna Meares, amazon.com

“That was one of the best efforts I think I’ve seen from an Australian sporting team. Unfortunately, it’s courage in the face of defeat. Nothing else matters other than the result, and we pulled up just short.”

— Alen Stajcic, foxsports.com.au

“This is one of the best things that has happened in my life. Now (the critics will) have to swallow what they said.”

— Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, foxsports.com.au

“They competed under gigantic pressure. Let’s give these kids a break. Sometimes you take actions that you later regret. They had fun, they made a mistake, life goes on.”

— Mario Andrada, foxsports.com.au

“I’ve been lucky enough to play a few good rounds along the way but that was the most special.”

— Marcus Fraser, foxsports.com.au

“I just had this gut feeling. And I thought ‘I think it’s going to happen’.”

— Chloe Esposito, foxsports.com.au

“I was up at Christ the Redeemer and I had a moment up there when I looked down and I visualized the moment at the start where that Olympic final will take place.”

— Kim Brennan, foxsports.com.au

“It couldn’t have come off any better, it was perfection, nearly.”

— Tom Burton, foxsports.com.au

“It is always hard as an athlete to admit that you didn’t deliver mentally, you always like to think you have some level of mental toughness.”

— Cameron McEvoy, foxsports.com.au

“It was what I wanted. I was able to dedicate myself to this last comeback and that was it. One last hurrah. Looking back, it happened exactly how I wanted it to and exactly how it should have.”

— Michael Phelps, foxsports.com.au