Olympic Games Quotes - Page 6

• 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)

  George Michael

  Summer, Song, Dad

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• I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972… he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.

  Ric Flair

  Games, Fans, Kevin

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• Olympics are probably the most important thing for Russians than any other athletes in the whole world. Since I was a little kid and since everybody was a little kid, their dream was playing in Olympic Games, especially if we have a chance to represent our country in Sochi, it's unbelievable and it's going to be a great thing.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Dream, Country, Athlete

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• And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Team, Games

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• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Strong, Gymnastics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Games, Iran, Years

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• Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.

  Jose Contreras

  Games, League, Levels

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• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Dream, Ucla, Games

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• Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York. Doing stuff on food. Doing stuff on kids. Just talking about issues that are relevant. Doing things on the Olympic Games.

  Apolo Ohno

  New York, Kids, Talking

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• This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

  Ai Weiwei

  Dream, Years, Games

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• I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

  Marian Dragulescu

  Gymnastics, Winning, Games

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• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Team, Race, Games

  "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

  Libby Trickett

  Country, Moon, Opportunity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.

  Natalie du Toit

  Dream, Years, Games

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• To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

  Adelina Sotnikova

  Games, Gold, Wanted

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• 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.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Ordinary World, Games, Generations

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• To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set for you. When I qualified in Seville I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Olympic Games.

  Natalie du Toit

  Dream, Believe, Games

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• 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.

  Richard Attias

  Girl, Hero, Athlete

  "Sport: Bridging the Gender Gap" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.

  Herbert Hainer

  Believe, Games, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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