I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
“Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?" "He was a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I'm this role model. So that means I can't mess around with my… — Amir Khan Copy Share Image
I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time… — Bonnie Blair Copy Share Image
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard… — Peter Kauzer Copy Share Image
You can't really rely on a couple of athletes to deliver you medals in five consecutive Olympic Games. It's absolutely unrealistic. You… — Abhinav Bindra 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
I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games.… — Adam Rippon 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
Sports authority should hire coaches only on contract basis in athletics and also in other games. The coaches should be told to… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful… — Aristotle 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
I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched… — David Rudisha Copy Share Image
Looking back, I feel very fortunate to have had such a long career. Many skaters end their careers in their early 20s.… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
I watched my idol and fellow Dutchman Tiesto. He was the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic event… — Martin Garrix 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
“He loathed Jimmy Carter, whom he called a “big-toothed cretin.” In 1980, when we were still in Kabul, the U.S. announced it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when,… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York.… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
“Folks like poor Misty Marie, they're limited, borderline dummies, but nothing enough to get a handicapped parking space. Or get any kind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as… — Inge de Bruijn Copy Share Image
Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are… — Shannon Miller Copy Share Image
I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire… — Cammi Granato Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We'd love to have a perfect scoresheet at the Olympic Games, but at the same time we always find we skate well… — Scott Moir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of 'you lie'… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
There's a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian… — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
