Best 127 quotes in «olympics quotes» category

And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.

Am I worried? Sure, I'm worried. When it comes to the Olympics, it can't be a predictable finish.

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.