Olympic Games Quotes
Olympic Games Quote of the day
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)
If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.
In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.
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.
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.
And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.
I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.
I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.
Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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.
It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.
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.
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
