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Olympic Quotes & Sayings

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There's going to be a real ding dong when the bell goes. — David Coleman

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement. — Brent Musburger

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration. — Olga Korbut

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. — Pierre De Coubertin

The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline. — Sunday Adelaja

The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well. — Dayron Robles

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth. — Mary Lou Retton

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London. — Shawn Johnson

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family. — Bill Toomey

We went out there as a team and believed we could win. I am an Olympic champion. — Mark Lewis-Francis

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games. — Jose Mourinho

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. — Pierre De Coubertin

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp. — Johnny Weissmuller

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year. — Sasha Cohen

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent. — Natalie Coughlin

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff. — Amy Poehler

In my neighborhood, gossip is a competitive sport that's been raised to Olympic standard, and I never diss gossip; I revere it with all my heart. — Tana French

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one. — Esther Williams

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents. — Clara Hughes

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist. — Gagan Narang

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest. — Daley Thompson

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life. — Bill Toomey

Making a square around the greatest living Olympic Knight, like a wolfpack come upon a great panther of the forest. — Pierce Brown

Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life. — Katrina Radke

What if winning the gold medal at the Olympics wasn't the end?
What if ... it was only the beginning? — Amanda Dubin

'Ghost Canoe' takes place on the storm-tossed tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where I spent a lot of time hiking and exploring. — Will Hobbs

Your capacity for self-justification and rationalization." "If it were an Olympic sport, I'd medal. — Tiffany Reisz

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. — Jesse Owens

Arguing is the Olympics of talking — Stewart Stafford

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up. — Jesse Owens

The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition. — Russell Mark

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means. — Andy Rooney

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

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright. — Yohan Blake

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either. — Jesse Owens

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else. — Rebecca Lobo

It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders. — Jaycie Phelps

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. — Jim Sensenbrenner

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games. — Jackie Chan

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. — Kurt Angle

There's a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games. — Eric Shanteau

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too. — Ryan Hall

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal. — Hugh Laurie

She would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport — Marlene Perez

I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively ... I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life. — Gigi Hadid

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me. — Dan O'Brien

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. — Avery Brundage

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers. — Murray Walker

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team. — Libby Trickett

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics. — Allyson Felix

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia. — Tommy Lasorda

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier. — Sally Pearson

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general. — Viswanathan Anand

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing. — Apolo Ohno

The Olympic Games are a national cause, and a national cause calls for a nationwide attitude. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything. — Natalie Du Toit

He thoroughly intended to do some major grovelling. Olympic-style begging, if necessary. — Christy Reece

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team. — Ashley Wagner

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games. — Donovan Bailey

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion. — Tara Lipinski

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. — Avery Brundage

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. — Pierre De Coubertin

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me. — Ashley Wagner

I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah. — Luke Donald

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism. — Tom Stoppard

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens

Last night I went out for Chinese. I picked up a Team USA Olympic uniform. — Jay Leno

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. — Fidel Castro

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal. — Sarah Hughes

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at. — Eric Shanteau

He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins — Des Lynam

At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete. — Aristotle.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games. — Asafa Powell

People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend. — Usain Bolt

Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible. — Eduardo Paes

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad. — Shawn Johnson

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes. — Jordyn Wieber

Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy. — Carrie Tollefson

It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim. — Jade Jones

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer. — Frank Shorter

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games. — Libby Trickett

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team. — Kevin Durant

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up. — Grace Gummer

Sweet smile is half again as sinister as her sister's razor. Beside her is an Olympic Knight, the Storm Knight — Pierce Brown

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it. — Dana Torres

At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious. — Saina Nehwal

You don't have to comment on every boring thing you do." I said. "This isn't Olympic curling. You're just unpacking a suitcase. — Maria Semple

Women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges. — Liane Moriarty

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row. — Steven Tyler

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors. — Nastia Liukin

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal. — Charlotte Casiraghi

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon. — Paula Radcliffe

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too. — Johnny Carson

The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family. — Bill Toomey

The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend. — Jade Jones

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty. — Pierre De Coubertin

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it. — Kerri Walsh

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. — Dorothy Hamill