Olympics Quotes - Page 21

• The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.

  Shaun White

  Team, Snowboarding, Want

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• I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.

  Venus Williams

  Dream, Dad, Home

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• Run as much miles as I did and you'll learn the secret of running, but I can't guarantee you'll win in Olympics.

  Lasse Viren

  Running, Winning, Secret

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• I'd say 3/4 of advertising works on pure Pavlov. Think how association, pure association, works. Take Coca-Cola company (we're the biggest share-holder). They want to be associated with every wonderful image: heroics in the Olympics, wonderful music, you name it. They don't want to be associated with presidents' funerals and so-forth.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Names, Funeral

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• The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

  George Gregan

  Athlete, Thinking, Player

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• What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.

  Mark Steyn

  America, Long Ago, Presidential

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• I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running the Olympics that you can get money there to help build economic opportunities. We actually got over $410 million from the federal government; that is a huge increase over anything ever done before. We did that by going after every agency of government. That kind of creativity I want to bring to everything we do (in Massachusetts).

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Creativity, Opportunity

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• Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

  Mary Lou Retton

  School, Kids, Practice

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• I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.

  Eva Mendes

  Sleep, Gold, Cuban

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• I think girls hate each other, no doesn't always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, women's sports are boring and the Olympics are gay.

  Bill Maher

  Girl, Sports, Hate

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• The luge is the only Olympic event where you could have people competing in it against their will, and it would look exactly the same. Take people off the street, 'Hey, hey, hey, what is this?! I don't wanna be in the luge!' Once you put that helmet on them, 'You're in the luge, buddy!' 'aaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAA... aaaAAAAA...' World record. Didn't even wanna do it. I'd like to see that next Olympics, the Involuntary Luge.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Next, Events

  "I'm Telling You for the Last Time". Stand-up comedy, 1998.

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• I have been in kind of a sexual dry spell lately. In the past few years I've only had sex in months that end in arch... in years that have an Olympics.

  Doug Benson

  Sex, Past, Years

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• I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

  Chelsea Handler

  Tennis, Special, Wells

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• I have always loved the Summer Olympics.

  Katharine McPhee

  Summer

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• I love the Olympics. I love the idea of something happening every four years. I've always had love for Bulgaria, and I've always been a Bulgarian. That's also really part of why I want to play it. I know it's tough for the calendar, but at the same time, it's the Olympics.

  Grigor Dimitrov

  Years, Play, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

  Joe Flacco

  Years, Special, Baltimore

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• Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it, you can qualify.' But it wasn't something that I actually believed I could do. Even now, I definitely understand and know I'm going to the Olympics, but I don't think it will fully sink in until I'm actually there and experiencing it.

  Gwen Jorgensen

  Thinking, Yeah, Said

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• Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

  David Letterman

  Tanks, Rolling, Putin

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• My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Dream, Winning, Cake

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• The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Gym

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• You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Wind, Bigs

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• Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Past, Years, People

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• We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lakes, Law, Cities

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• Sometimes I feel envious when my friends go to parties and I have to go to bed. But my friends always tell me that the parties really aren't that much fun anyway. Whatever I've missed, I've made up for. Most kids don't get to go to the Olympics and win three gold medals. It's definitely been worth it and I wouldn't do it if I didn't want to.

  Janet Evans

  Fun, Party, Kids

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• If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.

  James Fallows

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

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