Olympic Quotes
Olympic 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.
I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.
If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.
Invest your energy in the things you can control.
Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.
The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.
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.
If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
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.
It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
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 thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.
I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.
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.
As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did
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)
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
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'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.
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.
To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching.
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.
The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.
Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
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.
More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.
My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.
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.
