“I love Jesus. It’s more joyful knowing him than all that snowboarding stuff. And so being able to snowboard for him is amazing.”
– U.S. snowboarder Kelly Clark, who on her last run in the halfpipe, rode to the song “O Praise Him” by David Crowder
“It’s been quite a ride. But any attention that I get, I want to give it to God. Because honestly, without him, I wouldn’t be here. God is really my stability. He is what I cling to when times are good or when times are bad.
“Athletes today in our society are given such a platform. People listen to them, regardless if what they have to say is worthwhile or not. My goal is to use the platform that I have, and that I hope God will give me, to tell people about Christ. I think my message is definitely worthwhile.”
– U.S. bobsledder Brock Kreitzburg
“Once younger people realize that I’m a Christian, they will come up to me and share with me, ‘I’m a Christian too.’ So, they’re very excited about sharing that with me. I’ve had opportunities to sit down and pray with different individuals over situations, but it does open an avenue in a unique sport.”
– Neil Doese, coach of the U.S. curling team
“I thought my way to the Olympics would be in track and field through running or jumping in my track shoes. Little did I know that in God’s timing, he planned for me to don ‘start’ shoes with hundreds of spikes, and I would take up the sport of bobsled.
“- I began to realize that God wasn’t fooling when he planted that Olympic dream in me as a child. He really did have a plan for my life. He had been constantly preparing me for this opportunity, and I was happy that I had had faith, even when it seemed foolish to do so.”
– U.S. bobsledder Vonetta Flowers in her autobiography, “Running on Ice,”
a 2005 release from the New Hope Publishers, a division of WMU