Olympics Quotes - page 3

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth. (Mary Lou Retton)
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics. View quote
Mary Lou Retton
I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair. View quote
Melanie Roach
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. View quote
Missy Franklin
The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal. View quote
Mitch Gaylord
My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd. View quote
Nick Goepper
The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that. View quote
Oscar Robertson
As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring. View quote
Rick Larsen
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. View quote
Ryan Hall
I will try to win the Olympics gold in London. (Ryoko Tani)
The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen. View quote
Sergei Bubka
At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country. View quote
Shannon Miller
At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one. View quote
Shannon Miller
The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world. View quote
Sasha Cohen
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence. View quote
Scott Hamilton
I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics! View quote
Tom Daley
I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that. View quote
Taylor Phinney
I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is. View quote
Will McDonough
I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics. View quote
Yahoo Serious
I will do all I can to win a medal [2012 Olympics]. To see the National flag go up while standing on the podium is the proudest moment in an athlete's life and I will want to experience that for myself in London. Please just keep praying for the entire Indian contingent. We have a really good chance of doing well at these Games and it will provide a huge fillip to Indian Olympic sport if we are all able to perform to potential. (Sania Mirza)
On the 2004 Summer Olympics: "Nobody proposed me anything to do with the Olympics. Nothing. Maybe the Olympics have become too much of a supermarket now. The other athletics events have more of the spirit of the Olympics." View quote
Vangelis
The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong. View quote
Ai Weiwei
The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted. View quote
Ai Weiwei
[The Olympics are] an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true. View quote
Ai Weiwei