Olympics Quotes · Page 49

I want to be able to do the Olympics and then do the Paralympics after.

— Kadeena Cox

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

— Shaun White

In Beijing when the Chinese athletes had a massive roar that gave me a buzz pretending they were shouting for me.

— Ellie Simmonds

I just think there's something about being in the Olympics, even though I think it's been tarnished a little bit by commercialization.

— Tom Izzo

America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

— Bob Hope

I started skating when I was 2 years old because of my older sister Natasha was a skater, and I wanted to…

— Kaetlyn Osmond

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

— Tony Hawk

What is great about being in sport was when you won, you got a gold medal and you knew you had won.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at…

— Bode Miller

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in…

— Daley Thompson

It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you'd have to cut out the drinking side of…

— Adrian Lewis

Whenever the national para-athletic games are held, information does not reach the athletes. Whether the physically-challenged athletes participate or not, is a…

— Arunima Sinha

As a goalkeeper experience is a massive thing, and there is nothing better than playing games, which thankfully I managed to do…

— Jack Butland

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about…

— T. V. Carpio

People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my…

— Yuna Kim

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the…

— Misty May-Treanor

The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte…

— Bobby Hull

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the…

— Tony Hawk

It was like when we went to Mexico City [Olympics in 1968] it was sun and shining and bright. When we came…

— John Carlos

I'm feeling alright, I am pretty happy with it. I was trying to catch her, around 37k my calf started to cramp…

— Lanni Marchant

“Wouldn't you like to be the skater who wins the silver, and yet is thrilled about those three triple jumps that the…

— Timothy J. Keller

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

Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to…

— Mike Vallely

A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something…

— Michael Bierut

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

— Ma Jian

“she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport”

— Marlene Perez

When we won gold I was expecting overwhelming relief, but it just didn't come.

— Stephanie Labbe

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't…

— Mary Kom

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

— Gary Hustwit

The Olympics are an emotional roller-coaster. You cant be too disappointed with results because things dont always go your way.

— Adam Gilchrist

When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

— Kipchoge Keino

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and…

— Missy Franklin

You play four Grand Slams every year, the Olympics is only once every four years.

— Carlos Alcaraz

I think back to my time when I was skating: I was 15, and there was no such thing as Instagram.

— Tara Lipinski

If being a douche was an Olympic sport, I know some people that would have a gold medal!

— Anonymous

It's safe to say that if sucking it in were a sport, I'd be an Olympian.

— Anonymous

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

— Nancy Kerrigan

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.

— Tom Stoppard

I work with a team of coaches and trainers to make me feel like I am not alone out on the ice.

— Kaetlyn Osmond

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

— Valeria Golino