Olympics Quotes · Page 43

When we get off the line in skating we kind of look like little ducks running.

— Eddy Alvarez

I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

— Saara Aalto

I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to.

— Irina Slutskaya

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any…

— Kyle Kinane

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

— Katarina Witt

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

— Bryan Ferry

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

— Johnny Carson

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

— Jill Ellis

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want…

— Johnny Weir

NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is…

— Conan O'Brien

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd,…

— Alexander Pope

I wouldn't mind a spotlight also focused on the crowd, because, I think, one of the things that made the Olympic Games…

— Roy Hodgson

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe…

— Eric Heiden

Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough…

— Caitlyn Jenner

It's incredible, they're [the medals] beautiful and as soon as they put them around your neck, it's pretty amazing. Shannon played outstandingly…

— Jennifer Botterill

Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us…

— Mary Pilon

Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the…

— Lucy Powell

“If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more…

— Steven E. Landsburg

I'd say 3/4 of advertising works on pure Pavlov. Think how association, pure association, works. Take Coca-Cola company (we're the biggest share-holder).…

— Charlie Munger

Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others…

— Michel de Montaigne

At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting…

— Jill Douglas

For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years.…

— Jay Adams

Maybe I didn't get new skates, but I got used skates. I made it to the national championships in used skates that…

— Michelle Kwan

I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice…

— Garrett Hedlund

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

— Sally Ride

The Olympics should be something so special, but I feel like it was definitely miserable at times.

— MyKayla Skinner

It's like a dream for me, participating in the Olympics, it's so important for my career and I hope to win the…

— Oscar

The pressure is high because of course... everyone's expecting me to win the gold medal in Tokyo.

— Hidilyn Diaz

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

— George Pataki

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

— Andy Murray

When God gave me the chance to compete in the Rio Olympics, I thought that He gave me the chance and I…

— Hidilyn Diaz

The Olympics are in my blood and everybody knows how much I love my country.

— Alexander Ovechkin

When you start taking the original sports away from the Olympics, you really change what the Olympic Games are.

— Cael Sanderson

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

— Stella Young

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.

— Angela Kinsey

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

— Nathan Chen

My first gold was in the 2002 cadet national. I realized I was good enough even outside my village and my district.

— Geeta Phogat

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

— Steve Yzerman

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything,

— Natalie du Toit

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

— Aly Raisman