Olympics Quotes

• I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Team, Athlete

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• If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Winning, Medal, Participating

  "The Olympics - Where Are They Headed?". Awake! Magazine, February 8, 1977.

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• The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.

  Jesse Owens

  Country, New York, Cities

  "People In America : Jesse Owens" by Barbara Dash, web.archive.org. June 7, 2002.

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• The potential for greatness lives within us all.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational Sports, Athlete, Greatness

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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  Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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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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• The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Excellence, Olympic Spirit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never put an age limit on your dreams.

  Dara Torres

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  "Dara Torres: Don’t put an age limit on your dreams" by Giovanni Castelli, optometrytimes.modernmedicine.com. June 22, 2017.

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• The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

  Mitch Gaylord

  Memories, Team, Bronze Medal

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• The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Athlete, Games, Olympic Spirit

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• Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Mean, Hands, Games

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• For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Athlete, Olympic Spirit, Winter Olympics

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• To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

  Sebastian Coe

  Believe, Bronze Medal, Somewhere Else

  Sebastian Coe, Nicholas Mason (1988). “The Olympians: A Quest for Gold: Triumphs, Heroes & Legends”

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• The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Fighting, Winning, Aquariums

  1908 Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24 Jul.

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• An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

  Jeff Fenech

  Athlete, Achievement, Honor

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• The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Essentials, Olympic Spirit, Wells

  "The Olympian". Book by Peter L. Dixon, 1984.

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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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• There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Games, Competition

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• In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Hollywood, Enough

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• I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Winning, Accomplishment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

  Cammi Granato

  Sports, Winning, Focus

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• I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Atlanta, Steps, Remember

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