Best 127 quotes in «olympics quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

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

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

The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

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

The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

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.

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

When I was training for the Olympics, I didn't eat the way I should have. I missed out on much-needed protein and opted for every easy carb.

Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.

What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.

You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.

Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it — and everybody was talking about it — that I decided to keep it.

Arguing is the Olympics of talking

Compete like you cannot fail.