Olympics Quotes · Page 40

I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

— Shaun White

Exams, Scores, Ranks & medals are only the show case items. Not yours Life & Success .

— ArunVino

Well China, you got us. Phelps was doping - and he still beat you. He smoked the sticky-icky, and then he smoked…

— Stephen Colbert

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

— Abhinav Bindra

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

— Lindsey Vonn

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

— Bode Miller

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

— Cindy Klassen

I'm a two-time Olympian, but on the front and back end of both of those were two Olympics where I narrowly missed…

— Gretchen Bleiler

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.…

— Jahangir Khan

“I am the leaf skating across the pond again, simply blowing where her words take me, and I can just watch with…

— Sierra Simone

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just…

— Olga Korbut

I'm a four-time national champion and a two-time Olympian, and no one can take that away from me. So whatever people have…

— Jeremy Abbott

Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for…

— Mo Farah

I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about…

— Kristin Armstrong

Beijing's Olympics were very grand - they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the hosts didn't enjoy it.…

— Ai Weiwei

It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the…

— Jayna Hefford

“Heath hesitated. I watched the warring desires skirmish on his face. A part of him longed to surrender to my curiosity; another…

— Layne Fargo

When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps…

— Katie Ledecky

I am honored to be to be part of the biggest sports event in the world. The fact that the Games are…

— Tiesto

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy…

— Tina Fey

The shouts of triumph become infectious, and I lift my voice to join in, running toward my teammates. Christina holds the flag…

— Veronica Roth

Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be…

— Craig Ferguson

When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said she watched…

— Nicola Adams

When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I don't answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I'm not here and…

— Jennifer Weiner

“Katarina Shaw was in the building, and that bitch had come to win.”

— Layne Fargo

I did not know about awards. I just wanted to break the world record and the Olympic record.

— Milkha Singh

Once I retired from skating, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the chance to come back to…

— Eddy Alvarez

There are no words to describe what it would mean making the Olympic team.

— Max Aaron

For Indian players, qualifying for the Olympics is a feat in itself.

— Jwala Gutta

Making the Olympic team was the biggest thing I've ever accomplished. That was something I had to wait four years to accomplish.

— Tori Bowie

If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

— Elizabeth Berg

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme.

— Shawn Johnson

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

— Jimmy Fallon

When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

Representing Australia as an Olympian at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta 1996 were the proudest moments of my sporting career.

— Michael Diamond

In speed skating, we want to have the strongest, most powerful lower half of the body and don't want to have any…

— Eddy Alvarez

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

— Dorothy Hamill

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

— Muhammad Ali

Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.

— Noureddine Morceli