Best 127 quotes in «olympics quotes» category

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 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 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.

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

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.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

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 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 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.

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 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.

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

I swam my brains out.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

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.

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

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.

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

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains.

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.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it's not the biggest thing in the world.

The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.