Olympics Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

  Graeme Murphy

  Anniversary, Australia Day, 50th Birthday

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• I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Winning, Thinking, Gold

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

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• Sorry to disappoint you but I don’t even watch the Olympics no more.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Sorry, Motivation, Watches

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• In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

  Peggy Fleming

  Events, Midst, 1960s

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Kids, Idols, America

  "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

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• Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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• It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.

  David Carradine

  Girl, Thinking, Needs

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• 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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• 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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