Olympics Quotes · Page 2

I slept with my gold medal.

— Claressa Shields

Each Olympics is different.

— Tobin Heath

I don't know where my medals are.

— Eric Cantona

I'm going to win a gold medal.

— Ben Askren

Life is a lot like skateboarding.

— Lil Wayne

Kif! Show them the medal I won.

— Zapp Brannigan

I really like figure skating.

— Lindsey Vonn

The Olympics is a dream of mine.

— Katie Taylor

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

— Tom DeLonge

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

— Anonymous

I represented Mexico trying to go to the Olympics.

— Andy Ruiz Jr

We're so excited to skate in a Canadian market.

— Tessa Virtue

I would be so proud to finish my career with a European medal.

— Ryan Babel

I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

— Natalie du Toit

In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold.

— Elana Meyers

This is my cut from ice skating owww

— Keys

To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing…

— Sonny Bill Williams

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process…

— Abhinav Bindra

I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no…

— Jim Carrey

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

— Miranda Hart

This is an Olympic-level type of sport and it needs to be cleaned up.

— Tony Ferguson

If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

— Kimberley Locke

Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.

— Hannah Teter

Coming out of the worlds with a team gold medal was a real good confidence booster.

— Jordyn Wieber

Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old…

— Conan O'Brien

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value…

— Kim Yuna

A few years after I finished skating, someone asked where my medals were. I'm like, 'In a suitcase somewhere.' Now they're nicely…

— Michelle Kwan

I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat…

— Megan Rapinoe

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're…

— Oksana Baiul

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can…

— Ivan Lendl

I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's…

— Teri McKeever

I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire…

— Cathy Freeman

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will…

— Margaret Atwood

The other girls [in team] have experience. They've been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect…

— Gabby Douglas

Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me…

— Christian Hosoi

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I…

— Venus Williams

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up…

— Gary Locke

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best.…

— Adam Rippon

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the…

— Ai Weiwei

Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind…

— Libby Trickett