Olympic Games Quotes - Page 5

• I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

  Clara Hughes

  Beautiful, Believe, Alive

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• As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.

  Rick Larsen

  Winter, Opportunity, Games

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• Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

  Inge de Bruijn

  Motivational, Country, Hard Work

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• The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Real, Games, Pressure

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• I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry the flag of your country is doubly thrilling.

  Shani Davis

  Country, Athlete, Games

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• Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

  Homer

  Games, History, Conqueror

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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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• There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

  Shannon Miller

  Years, Games, Events

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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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• I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

  Bonnie Blair

  Short Love, Games, Long

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• To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Determination, Real, Team

  "'Blade runner' Pistorius handed dream double Olympic ticket", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2012.

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• I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

  Jackie Chan

  Games

  "Jackie Chan 'wants kung fu in Olympics'" by Jennifer Still, www.digitalspy.com. August 23, 2010.

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

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Flames

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• Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

  Johnny Carson

  Peace, War, Games

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• The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us a continuation of our training, we will compete in only this World cup. We don't want to travel too much before the Olympic Games and we want to focus on the Games.

  Pavol Hochschorner

  Athlete, Race, Games

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• If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

  Yohan Blake

  Games, Alright, Medal

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• 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.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Fighting, London Olympics

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• The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

  Dave Beard

  Athlete, Men, Games

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• ... and later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.

  Sue Barker

  Men, Pairs, Action

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• Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.

  Ted Lowe

  Hands, Years, Age

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• 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.

  Daley Thompson

  Athlete, Games, Dining

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• One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an open dialogue. We [germans] should be careful about constantly imposing our values on others.

  Herbert Hainer

  Games, Together, Purpose

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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