Olympics Quotes

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

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

I swam my brains out.

....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.

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

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

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

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

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.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

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

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

I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

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 Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

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

Nothing can replace the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I was so proud when I played in '98 and I was so proud when we won in 2002.

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

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

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.

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.

The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.

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

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

The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

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.

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.

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

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

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

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.

A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for.

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

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

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.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

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.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

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

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

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

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.