Olympic games Quotes · Page 2

If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the…

— John Carlos

If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the…

— Kurt Angle

Science is not like the Olympic Games or something where there's a lot of people all trying to win gold medals, and…

— Frederick Sanger

“Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and…

— Jessica Park

To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

— Adelina Sotnikova

The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.

— Dayron Robles

Ever since I was a kid and all the time I have played in the NHL, NHL players have played in the…

— Alexander Ovechkin

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games.…

— Gracie Gold

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the…

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Johnny Carson

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a…

— Noureddine Morceli

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

— Bill Toomey

I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed…

— Olga Fonda

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes

— Oscar Pistorius

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

— Scott Hamilton

You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games,…

— Raoul Peck

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

— Homer

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were…

— Gary Hustwit

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing…

— Anonymous

There's going to be a real ding dong when the bell goes.

— David Coleman

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

— Simone Biles

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

— Pierre de Coubertin

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

— Herb Brooks

I organized this global series of races. The data from those races, along with the tremendous amount of lobbying and meetings with…

— Kathrine Switzer