Olympic Games Quotes - Page 7

• Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

  Plutarch

  Games, Achilles, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.208

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• I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

  Yuna

  Winning, Ice, Games

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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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• I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Games, Chess

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• Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

  Gary Hustwit

  Pride, Games, Cities

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

  Gary Hustwit

  Country, Games, Cities

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Winter, Games

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• [Vladimir] Putin intended to provide for a broad safety corridor [for the Olympic Games]. That's why Abkhazia was a more important and desired goal of Russian aggression against Georgia than South Ossetia, which merely served as a pretext. Concerns mainly centered on the Crimea.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Safety, Goal

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I've started late, I was 19 years old. I've trained with Victor Zilberman - he's a Russian-Jewish from Moldova. His son David who is coaching me represented Canada in the Olympic games. There were a lot of very good wrestlers there and they took me underneath their wing when I was young.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Son, Years, Games

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• Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever [in 1968], had been televised worldwide. The second thing is the fact that it was in Technicolor. Never had the games been shown in color before.We wanted it to be understood that we were representing America, but we were representing Black America in particular, so that's why we put the black glove on.

  John Carlos

  Color, Games, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.

  John Carlos

  Thinking, Games, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?

  John Carlos

  Men, Russia, Games

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Opportunity, Boston, Years

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• I organized this global series of races. The data from those races, along with the tremendous amount of lobbying and meetings with federations, convinced the IOC. We got the women's marathon in the Olympic Games in 1984. That was my dream.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Dream, Race, Data

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• Science is not like the Olympic Games or something where there's a lot of people all trying to win gold medals, and if you don't get a gold medal, you're nothing. There are actually a lot of people working together and contributing to the science - and the science is the important thing.

  Frederick Sanger

  Winning, People, Working Together

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about the athletes and about coming together. This year's motto was One World, One Dream and to take that away it's just not a good time.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Dream, Athlete, Thinking

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• The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Games, Humanity, Springtime

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• Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Games, Feelings, Singing

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• The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.

  Joseph Stowell

  Christian, Running, Unique

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• We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

  Murray Walker

  Race, Opposites, Situation

  "First and last: Murray Walker". Interview With Nick Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.

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