Olympics Quotes - Page 5

• I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

  Bruce Dern

  Team

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• For my first pretty big international competition and the Olympics, I think I did pretty well. Medals aren't everything. It's all about you going out there and having a good time. I feel proud of myself.

  Kimmie Meissner

  Thinking, Competition, Going Out

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• I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.

  Wyomia Tyus

  Opportunity, Careers, Track

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• How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most.

  Nicolas Cage

  Winning, Race, Together

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• The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

  Marat Safin

  Winning, Goal, Tennis

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• Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

  Ai Weiwei

  Self Confidence, Needs, Britain

  "London 2012: Opening ceremony – reviews" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2012.

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• I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

  Carl Lewis

  Believe, Media, Typical

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• Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win.

  Usain Bolt

  Sleep, Feel Better, Winning

  "Usain Bolt: 'Legends have come before me, but this is my time'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

  Yohan Blake

  Jamaica, Champion

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• Well that's a bit of a question like saying, what have you learned in life that would help you lead? My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state. Those experiences in totality have given me an understanding of how America works and how the economy works.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, America, Parent

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• It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Firefighter, Parent

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Summer, Athlete, Nbc

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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• Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Australia, Opening Ceremony

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.

  Martin Garrix

  Inspiration, Play, Track

  Source: elliesimpsonblog.wordpress.com

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• I think educating myself has been huge. I feel like the way it's presented in the media is that if you got to Brazil you're flipping a coin on your health. I don't think it has to be that way. If I were wanting to have a baby right after the Olympics I would take precautions, and then when the Olympics were over I would get tested to make sure I didn't have the virus in me, and then I'd go for it.

  Kerri Walsh

  Baby, Thinking, Media

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?"

  Geena Davis

  Beautiful, Sports, Real

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Dream, Winter, Impossible

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• I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

  Johnny Weir

  Mom, Athlete, Winning

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• If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

  Will Self

  Sports, School, Government

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  Sally Ride

  Running, Hiking, Space

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• Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

  Aly Raisman

  Dream, Gymnastics, World

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• Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

  Lucy Powell

  Team, Cycling, Example

  "Manchester's sporting success led to Team GB's Olympic glory" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

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• This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

  Michael Phelps

  Birthday, Sports, Swimming

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• It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Al Pacino

  Winning, Feelings, Gold

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• Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Easter, Moving

  Forbes, Volume 180, Issues 8-13, 2007.

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