Best 127 quotes in «olympics quotes» category

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it, you can qualify.' But it wasn't something that I actually believed I could do. Even now, I definitely understand and know I'm going to the Olympics, but I don't think it will fully sink in until I'm actually there and experiencing it.

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

I'm really happy that it's in Russia. I've had a lot of success here. I had my first world championships here when I was younger so I am happy to do the Olympics here. I am really enjoying myself.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on the Sochi Olympics. We were working closely with them on the Iranian nuclear deal.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.

It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.

I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

I swam my brains out.

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics – I just got bronze.

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.