In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional… — Ryan Sheckler Copy Share Image
I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
I'm 24, which I know doesn't sound very old. But in the world of gymnastics it is. The Tokyo Games are my… — MyKayla Skinner Copy Share Image
I knew I would try for the Tokyo Olympics back in 2016. I was sitting in the stands as an alternate at… — MyKayla Skinner Copy Share Image
I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
Being the first Olympic medallist of my country means that I have some obligations and it was a very tough job for… — Benjamin Boukpeti Copy Share Image
I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh… — Francesco Quinn Copy Share Image
I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4,… — Shani Davis Copy Share Image
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my… — Sasha Cohen Copy Share Image
At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my… — Olena Vitrychenko Copy Share Image
The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and… — Gary Bettman Copy Share Image
I remember my dad took my ice skates. One day I asked my mum: 'Where are my ice skates?' because I loved… — Dejan Lovren Copy Share Image
I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in… — Cameron van der Burgh Copy Share Image
I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics.… — Leander Paes Copy Share Image
That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
I've known Larry Clark since I was fourteen. I've always skateboarded in Manhattan. Larry got into the scene in the early '90s,… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I Rollerblade to work, but it's most lovely in the park, and it's really quite safe there. I do it quite… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
If you were watching the Olympics, you absolutely saw a 'Voice' ad. You could not escape that 'The Voice' was on, so… — Guy Sebastian Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. — Juan Antonio Samaranch Copy Share Image
The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which… — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of… — Carly Patterson Copy Share Image
Obviously, the competition at an Olympics, the emotions are running high, and the stakes are higher for these athletes, so it does… — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
Nothing against the Olympics. I played in 2012 and it was an incredible experience. It's different for tennis players than for swimmers… — John Isner Copy Share Image
That's what we love to do and I think our skating's at it's best when we do that: when we draw people… — Scott Moir Copy Share Image
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A.… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The SheBelieves was my big moment, my big breakthrough. We had to get on that platform, hold that trophy, and have that… — Phil Neville Copy Share Image
I'd do anything with the U.S.A. team in the Olympics from being the head coach, which probably isn't going to happen, to… — Tom Izzo Copy Share Image
I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to… — Jessica Ennis Copy Share Image
There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one… — Dick Button Copy Share Image
When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived… — Laurie Hernandez Copy Share Image
“Skating was a gift given to me, and it's a sport I love. I go out there every single day and there… — Apolo Anton Ohno Copy Share Image
