Maggie Connor is one of them.

"It hit me during the opening ceremonies, walking in under our country’s flag," said Connor. "That’s when I said, ‘If I can do this, I can do anything.’"

Now, Connor, a 1992 Olympian and the 1994 and 1995 world professional mogul skiing champion, works with others to help them reach their goal and discover that same feeling.

Connor, 41, moved to Kittery Point seven months ago. She has stopped competing, but her work as a "personal trainer for your mind," as the president of Ultimate Journey, fulfills her passion for athletics, she said.

Connor works one on one with individuals and holds seminars. She said she trains anyone interested in achieving a goal who desires a "mind of excellence."

Her job spans from helping someone quit smoking to working with the New York Yankees - don’t hate her, she said. She’s from Salem, Mass., originally, and she said she would much rather be working with the Boston Red Sox.

She’s donated most of her trophies and medals to the Special Olympics. Positive energy just seems to flow out of her, as she constantly talks about the potential in everyone she meets.

But, when sitting inside her Kittery Point home, she makes it clear - the road to the Olympics wasn’t an easy one.

Connor was introduced to skiing when she was 3 years old. Her father, who was the first captain of the Boston College ski team, taught her and her brothers how to get down a mountain.

At 6, she started dreaming about the Olympics.

That dream was interrupted when she turned 16 and her parents divorced. She moved to Texas with her mother.

Her family, she said, didn’t have much money, so she let the Olympics stray from her dreams.

"It was too painful to think about," she said.

Then she met Hillary Engish, a world champion skier who became Connor’s mentor. The two met while working as skiing coaches in Europe with a study-abroad program.

Engish watched Connor ski, and told her, "You could be on the national team," Connor said.

Connor gave herself three years to train and committed "110 percent," skiing eight hours a day and working to make money at night.

By her third season, Connor made the national team.

At 28, she competed in the Albertville, France, Winter Olympics.

She hasn’t competed in another Olympics, but many of the athletes she’s worked with have.

"It’s one thing to win the race; it’s a whole other thing to help others win," she said. "I know I’m doing what I’m here to do."