Best 127 quotes in «olympics quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 swam my brains out.

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

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

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.