Olympics Quotes - Page 14

• I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.

  Melanie Roach

  Children, Decision, Mind

  "Gold medal moms prepare to storm Beijing" by By Jen Brown, www.today.com. August 04, 2010.

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• I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Grateful, Years, People

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• I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Three, Feels

  "Marathon mum" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

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• It was a dream come true for me to be at the Olympics.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Dream, Dreams Come True

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• I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Fun, Heart, People

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• When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Team, Experts, Ifs

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

  Andy Murray

  Events, World, Sporting Events

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Community, Homecoming, Should

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• I knew there was a certain level that I could get to within the sporting world. But as I continued with my career, not only did I grow, but the sport grew. All of a sudden, all of these doors opened to me. It's been amazing. I guess I was born at the right time.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Doors, Careers

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• I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Plans

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• Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

  Lolo Jones

  College, Training, Before Marriage

  "Did Lolo Jones Offer Up Too Much Information?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 30, 2012.

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• I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

  Nader al-Masri

  Athlete, Optimistic, Achievement

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• But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Moving, Challenges, Time To Move On

  "Top of the bill: Billy Joe Saunders insists he's ready to rock the Royal Albert Hall" by David Anderson, www.mirror.co.uk. April 25, 2012.

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• You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

  Dick Ebersol

  Basketball, Football, Games

  "Just how valuable is owning the Olympic Games TV rights?" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2011.

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• The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

  Dick Ebersol

  Athlete, Character, Guy

  "Ebersol’s Parting Thoughts". blogs.wsj.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.

  Kohei Uchimura

  Years, Giving, Advice

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• The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  "Past wins aside, Mariel Zagunis still driven". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

  Li Ka-shing

  Satisfaction, Satisfied

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• I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Feelings, Emptiness, Horrible

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• The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?

  Paula Radcliffe

  Thinking, Race, Watches

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• What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.

  Chris Witty

  Opportunity, Flags, World

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• The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.

  Jean Drapeau

  Baby, Men, Loses

  "Why Chicago didn't want the Olympics" by Edward McClelland, www.salon.com. October 2, 2009.

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• If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries.

  Tony Hawk

  Summer, Country, Winter

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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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• Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

  Gagan Narang

  Commonwealth Games, Differences, Gold

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