I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal. — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
The mistakes you make and lessons you learn at a young age are what gets you to an Olympic level. — Caroline Buchanan Copy Share Image
An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a… — Hannah Kearney Copy Share Image
I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil… — Jeff Van Gundy Copy Share Image
I know everyone has Olympic dreams, but if you really think about it, you just don't want to go to the Olympics.… — Sam Mikulak Copy Share Image
I didn't know if I was gonna make the Olympic roster, but just to be part of that journey to get to… — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done a hundred times,… — Caroline Buchanan Copy Share Image
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do?… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're… — Julia Mancuso Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will… — Peggy Fleming Copy Share Image
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing… — Angela Ruggiero Copy Share Image
“You look like you got more of a bath than the car. I never thought washing a car would be so hard,… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I want to get back on the international stage. I want to bring in Olympic champions to southwestern Ontario and I want… — Scott Moir Copy Share Image
I organized this global series of races. The data from those races, along with the tremendous amount of lobbying and meetings with… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they… — Vasyl Lomachenko Copy Share Image
It had been a dream of mine to go to an Olympic Games since I was about seven years old. I didn't… — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
The atmosphere in Sochi is unusual, in that we are surrounded by the Olympic complex. It is special to compete at a… — Charles Leclerc Copy Share Image
If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
I've become Olympic champion six times and I've never taken a performance-enhancing drug in my life, but I was lucky in that… — Chris Hoy 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 Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the… — Ai Weiwei 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
From the time I started boxing, my dream was to win an Olympic gold medal. At 10, I can't say I knew… — Danny Garcia Copy Share Image
I think we've got every chance of being an Olympic sport and, if they did put us in, I know they'd sell… — Phil Taylor Copy Share Image
A lot of the Olympic games just boil down to genetics. Michael Phelps is genetically built to swim better than other people… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're… — Tom Daley Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
The favorite to win the Olympic gold medal in archery is a legally blind athlete from South Korea, mainly because everyone else… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I am almost 30 so I am approaching this one as if it will be my last Olympic Games. I want to… — Asafa Powell Copy Share Image
To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m… — Oscar Pistorius Copy Share Image
The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines,… — Adelina Sotnikova Copy Share Image
My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
There's something about an Olympic Games and representing Canada and being part of that greater team, so when we're 70, we'll be… — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
