I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best. — Shaun White Copy Share Image
All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that. — Fanny Blankers-Koen Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright. — Yohan Blake Copy Share Image
I've played in many different environments and at the highest level at an Olympic Games. — Stephanie Labbe Copy Share Image
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike. — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal,… — Adelina Sotnikova Copy Share Image
To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one. — Adelina Sotnikova Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games. — Casey Eastham Copy Share Image
When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set… — Natalie du Toit Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important… — Tina Maze Copy Share Image
Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the… — Simone Biles Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games provided players like Neymar, Marquinhos, Gabriel Jesus and Renato Augusto with some really valuable experience and ended up improving… — Tite Copy Share Image
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being… — Herbert Hainer Copy Share Image
“You would fain be victor at the Olympic Games, you say. Yes, but weigh the conditions, weigh the consequences; then and then… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences.… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity.… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
“I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us.… — Jacques Rogge Copy Share Image
“If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault, but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of… — Epictetus (From Manual 51 Copy Share Image
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman Copy Share Image
The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square. — Trevor Bailey Copy Share Image
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
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