Olympics Quotes · Page 52

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different…

— Carl Lewis

We surprised ourselves in '84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn't yet until we won the gold…

— Karch Kiraly

I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.

— Shaun White

It wasn't an easy journey to participating in the Olympics. It has taken me 14 years of training and hard work.

— Dutee Chand

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

— Alicia Sacramone

I fell in love with athletics watching the 1980 Moscow Olympics, aged seven. I thought: 'These people aren't human, they're immortal.'

— Denise Lewis

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

— Kohei Uchimura

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

— Mary Lou Retton

…What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics…

— Joey Reiman

I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little…

— Ashley Wagner

I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur…

— Kurt Angle

I was exemplifying the Olympian who took up a challenge as a sportsman, without a trainer, in a country without mountains and…

— Eddie the Eagle

I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and…

— Apolo Ohno

I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding…

— Patrick Chan

Certainly for me the Commonwealth Games were fantastic to compete in and I genuinely have so many great memories of the three…

— Chris Hoy

It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it…

— Alberto Tomba

My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.

— Noureddine Morceli

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

— Roger Ebert

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and…

— Robin Cousins

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

My focus will always be my athletic career and winning more medals for the country.

— Dutee Chand

I have no regrets coming back for a second Olympic team [in 2016]. It's been an amazing experience. It's been teaching me…

— Gabby Douglas

When you go to a shooting competition, you don't know what medal you're going to finish with.

— Abhinav Bindra

I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.

— Eva Mendes

When I think of the Olympics - and I'm a little biased - but wrestling comes right to mind.

— Cael Sanderson

The Olympics are a completely different beast. It's the most magical moment of your career.

— Hilary Knight

I'm a very, very, very avid skateboarder. I skate every day when I'm at home. I have a half-pipe in my back…

— Sky Blu

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

— Johnny Weir

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

— Mirai Nagasu

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.

— Jack Butland

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

— N.D. Wilson

I've skateboarded my whole life, and I'm going to keep enjoying it until my age prohibits me.

— Jimmi Simpson

There will be no one like me in the history of Olympics, someone who competed in an Olympic final with one international…

— P. T. Usha

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record) I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

— Noureddine Morceli

I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it.

— Sebastian Stan

There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to…

— Justin Gatlin

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.

— Hidilyn Diaz

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

— Eddie the Eagle

“Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.”

— Yann Martel