Olympic Games Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Family, Games, Cities

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• I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

  Marlon Starling

  Funny, Fighting, Boxing

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• The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Color, White, Flags

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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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• There's going to be a real ding dong when the bell goes.

  David Coleman

  Real, Bells

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• Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.

  David Coleman

  Capable

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• Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.

  Ron Pickering

  Running, Giving, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Father, Winning

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• That's inches away from being millimetre perfect.

  Ted Lowe

  Perfect, Inches

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• 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.

  Apolo Ohno

  Winning, Hair, Race

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• The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Cities, Athens

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• We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

  Bobby Robson

  Funny, Soccer, Stupid

  "Faded FA Cup glimmering again" by Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. January 4, 2013.

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• The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Dream, Athlete

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• I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

  Duncan Armstrong

  Sports, Dream, Wall

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• I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

  Stuart Pearce

  Soccer, Football, Tunnels

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• For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

  John Motson

  Football, Black And White, Yellow

  Quoted in Motson's National Obsession (2004).

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• I feel it's right for me to wear a Canadian flag baseball hat. Regardless of the fact that my wife is Canadian and I would support her throughout, the spirit of the Olympic Games is to have all these countries together to push each other.

  Ashton Eaton

  Baseball, Country, Wife

  Source: wwd.com

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• 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

  Winning, Years, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

  Tina Maze

  Sports, Athlete, Games

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• Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Order, Games

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