Olympics Quotes

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

I know there's life after the Olympics.

I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.

Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.

For softball, we need the Olympics. For young girls dreaming of that Olympic dream, that's where it's at, and that's where it all started in '96 for our sport.

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it!

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

I have always loved the Summer Olympics.

I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.

There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.

If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.

The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.