Olympics Quotes - Page 5

• When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The Olympics, they don't define me, I've had some good and some bad. But it's all about the Olympic experience.

  Michelle Kwan

  Athlete, Challenges, Looks

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• Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

  Bill Bowerman

  Motivational, Sports, Inspiration

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• I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

  Gregg Troy

  Sports, Inspiration, Winning

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• I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

  Teri McKeever

  Motivational, Girl, Sports

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• Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

  Thomas Boswell

  Team, Golf, Hockey

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• It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands cheering for you it's a great feeling and I cant wait to get the Olympics started.

  Meghan Agosta-Marciano

  Dream, Cheer, Hockey

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• It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.

  Jayna Hefford

  Giving Up, Hockey, Games

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• And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.

  Shannon Miller

  Gymnastics, Years, Arena

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• Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Silly

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• This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

  Bela Karolyi

  Sports, Dream, Team

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• She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

  Frank Carroll

  Sports, Long, Skating

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• Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Team, December

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• Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.

  Tonya Harding

  Causes, Lost Everything, Remember

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• Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

  Avery Brundage

  Sports, Phenomenon, International

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• At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.

  Olena Vitrychenko

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Judging

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• I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

  Joey Cheek

  Sports, Fall, Thinking

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• I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Dream, Sorry

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• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Games

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• My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

  Debi Thomas

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.

  Paul Tergat

  Senior, Running, Country

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• I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

  Duncan Armstrong

  Sports, Dream, Wall

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• I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.

  Leisel Jones

  Sports, Good Friend, Three

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• I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

  Aly Raisman

  Cocky, Right Now

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• It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

  Stephen King

  Running, Zero, Mean

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• No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

  James C. Collins

  Success, Dream, Morning

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