Olympic Games Quotes - Page 3

• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• 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.

  Pele

  Games, Play, Goal

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• In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Leadership, Sports, Team

  "The Olympic Idea: Discourses and Essays". Book by Carl Diem, 1970.

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• I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Running, Sleep, Winning

  "An Exclusive Club". Interview with Gary Smith, www.si.com. June 27, 1994.

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

  Chris Brasher

  Athlete, Soul, Olympics

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• 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.

  Johnny Weir

  Athlete, Games, Earth

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

  Jesse Owens

  Hockey, Winning, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Motivational, Athlete, Positivity

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• The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

  Natalie Cook

  Sports, London Olympics, Athletic

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

  Fanny Blankers-Koen

  Running, People, Done

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• When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even if it's only coming in the top 50, then you have a monumental night.

  Steve Bunce

  Night, Games, Long

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games be held in peace, in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce. Athletes of the 80 national Olympic committees, show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You can show us a world we all long for.

  Jacques Rogge

  Sports, Religious, Athlete

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• 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

  Running, Race, Games

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• I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a year. I get more gratification from that than putting a person in the Olympic Games. The Olympic athlete probably doesn't appreciate what you've done, but the other guy does. I think it's really rewarding.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Heart, Athlete

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• Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

  David Acfield

  Funny, Soccer, Air

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• This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!

  Peter Kauzer

  Athlete, Winter, Years

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• The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

  Avery Brundage

  Athlete, Games, Politician

  "The Movement To Boycott The Berlin Olympics Of 1936", www.ushmm.org.

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• As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.

  Evan Davis

  Country, Couple, Nice

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• If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the kick of a dolphin, the reflexes of a cat. If you could have all these, you would have the body, you would have the tools. But you would not have greatness until you understand that the strongest muscle is the heart. To me, that's the soul of the Olympic Games.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Spring, Heart, Cat

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• I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Real, Team

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• Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

  Aristotle

  Success, Men, Games

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• I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

  David Rudisha

  Games, Champion, Watches

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

  Natalie du Toit

  Dream, Games, Goal

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• 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.

  Gail Devers

  Mother, Games, People

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