Olympics Quotes

Rio would be my last Olympics.

— Usain Bolt

I've been on skates since age 5.

— Eddy Alvarez

I generally like white skates.

— Sasha Cohen

I just skated for the fun of it.

— Sarah Hughes

Neck full of Gold Olympian shit.

— Ace Hood

I like to be on the ice.

— Johnny Gaudreau

“Compete like you cannot fail.”

— Steve Backley

I want to be a skater.

— Lil Wayne

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

— Don Kardong

Early skateboard culture had a lot of skulls.

— Tim Robinson

My goal this winter is to not slip & fall on ice. That is all.

— Alyssa Khoury

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

— Eric Heiden

I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.

— Michelle Kwan

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

— Michael Jackson

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

— Katarina Witt

The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world.

— Jessica Mendoza

The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.

— P. T. Usha

I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to…

— Sarah Hughes

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

— Brian Boitano

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

— Mikaela Shiffrin

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

— Scott Hamilton

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

— Bonnie Blair

I've made money from a young age but it's never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don't just do this…

— Nyjah Huston

I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I…

— Judit Polgar

I was just really excited to win the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m in Moscow and then, to top that off, to win…

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would…

— Dick Fosbury

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of…

— Kurt Browning

There are moments when I think I'm not very smart and not very pretty, and skating is the only thing that stands…

— Mirai Nagasu

I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateboarding. So I put down…

— Steve-O

You work for years and years to make the Olympics, then something goes wrong and it's all gone. But that doesn't mean…

— Danny Garcia

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is…

— Brian Williams

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat.…

— Muhammad Ali

“Heath knew me when I was a gangly little girl with bloody kneecaps and prairie grass in my hair. He'd seen me…

— Layne Fargo

A slam dunk or a breakdance move is limited by what the physical body can do. Now, a skateboard is limitless by…

— Rob Dyrdek

The luge is the only Olympic event where you could have people competing in it against their will, and it would look…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to,…

— Brian Boitano

I don't have any regrets, really. What I got out of the sport was more than I ever dreamed was possible. We…

— Colleen Jones

I don't want to be an object of consumption. I like to get out there and participate because I care about it.…

— Mike Vallely

My dad was an incredibly brave man, completely dedicated to his family, with a love for all. If I could be half…

— Tom Daley