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
I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one… — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin intended to provide for a broad safety corridor [for the Olympic Games]. That's why Abkhazia was a more important and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“That legend—and it is more legend than historical fact—inspired a race in 1896 at the first modern Olympic Games over approximately the… — Hal Higdon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you are in your sport for your country, you should be able to go to the Olympic Games and represent your… — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even… — Steve Bunce 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
If I do consider fighting, it won't be until after the Olympic games in 2020, and then from there I'll reevaluate, see… — Jordan Burroughs 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can… — Herbert Hainer 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
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
“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 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
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
As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns… — Rick Larsen 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
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
Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him… — Epictetus 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
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 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
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
I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything… — Oscar Pistorius 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
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
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
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