Olympics Quotes - Page 19

• From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.

  Brian Boitano

  Leadership, Sports, Wisdom

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, cbsnews.cbsig.net. January 26, 2014.

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• Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the Olympics, too. Either would be very difficult, both even more-but the player who wins Wimbledon will be the favorite for the Olympics. It can happen.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Winning, Player

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• Everything that happened in '92 was more than I had dreamed of... winning the U.S. title for the first time and then doing so well at the Olympics... It seemed to wrap things up so perfectly. I couldn't help thinking, 'How could I top that?'

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Winning, Thinking, Firsts

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• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  Hannah Kearney

  Winning, Gold, Firsts

  "Exclusive: Gold Medal Winner Hannah Kearney On Her Olympic Experience" by Hannah Kearney, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2010.

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• (Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record)
  I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Summer, Athlete, Thinking

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• (American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)
  I swam my brains out.

  Mark Spitz

  Summer, Winning, Brain

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• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Wrestling, Winning

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• I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

  Jackie Chan

  Ambassadors, Want, United

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• After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Summer, Volleyball

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• The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Sports, Powerful, Hate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Effort, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport.

  Herbert Hainer

  Sports, Commitment, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Cycling

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• The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Struggle, Humor

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• The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their own Olympics. You hear all this stuff about TV being faked. Of course it's faked. It's all faked. That documentary a couple of weeks ago about tribal warfare among monkeys, that was all filmed in a Yates wine lodge in Dundee. Comic Relief is faked. Everybody in Africa is fine.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games.

  David Boudia

  Struggle, Inspiration, Games

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. 2012.

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• I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.

  Jeff Fenech

  Boxing, Champion, Half

  Source: fitefansho.blogspot.com

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• Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Country, Winter

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• If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible.

  Jill Douglas

  Air, Gold, Special

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

  John Towner Williams

  Country, Competition, Healthy

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• The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.

  Sergei Bubka

  Motivational, Athlete, Competition

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• They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

  Debbie Meyer

  College, Opportunity, Two

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• I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

  Will McDonough

  Fighting, Heavyweights, World

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• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Dan O'Brien

  Dream, Winning, Jail

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• The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.

  Scott Hamilton

  Memories, Events, My Favorite

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