Olympics Quotes · Page 27

Most people that develop in darts or any sport probably take two or three years to find their feet.

— Rob Cross

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.

— Hidilyn Diaz

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

— Eddie the Eagle

“Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.”

— Yann Martel

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.

— Jack Butland

I've skateboarded my whole life, and I'm going to keep enjoying it until my age prohibits me.

— Jimmi Simpson

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

— N.D. Wilson

The Olympic Games showed how, with the nation united behind it, and the right combination of public and private enterprise, the most…

— Rachel Reeves

Kids at skate parks will step up and challenge me to a game of Skate, but I'm over that, I really don't…

— Mike Vallely

I was very hungry to compete internationally when I was 10 years old, and I was good enough to compete, so that…

— Dominique Moceanu

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these…

— Oscar Robertson

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebelliousunderground…

— Tony Hawk

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as…

— Dorothy Hamill

I was fortunate enough to coach the US Olympic team in Australia. The parks were full at all times. How can they…

— Tommy Lasorda

It is an important competition and I certainly rate my gold medals at the Commonwealth Games right up there with my world…

— Chris Hoy

“A national obsession with a particular sport does not occur in a vacuum. Something lights the match. In the early twentieth century,…

— Fitzgerald Matt

One of the things about my sport that's important is consistency - being able to do your routines consistently and training consistently.…

— Jonathan Horton

“Well, I did a little research, and I found out that boxers are better for the balls and sperm counts.” “I see,”…

— Katie Ashley

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses -…

— Johnny Weir

Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the…

— John Carlos

The other girls [in team] have experience. They've been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect…

— Gabby Douglas

Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me…

— Christian Hosoi

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I…

— Venus Williams

There will be no one like me in the history of Olympics, someone who competed in an Olympic final with one international…

— P. T. Usha

There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to…

— Justin Gatlin

I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it.

— Sebastian Stan

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record) I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

— Noureddine Morceli

I'm a very, very, very avid skateboarder. I skate every day when I'm at home. I have a half-pipe in my back…

— Sky Blu

The Olympics are a completely different beast. It's the most magical moment of your career.

— Hilary Knight

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

— Mirai Nagasu

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

— Johnny Weir

I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.

— Eva Mendes

When you go to a shooting competition, you don't know what medal you're going to finish with.

— Abhinav Bindra

I have no regrets coming back for a second Olympic team [in 2016]. It's been an amazing experience. It's been teaching me…

— Gabby Douglas

When I think of the Olympics - and I'm a little biased - but wrestling comes right to mind.

— Cael Sanderson

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

— Gracie Gold

I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a…

— Lauren Gibbs

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!

— Elana Meyers

Wrestling is the Olympics. It's the toughest, more grueling, most demanding and most humbling sport there is.

— Jake Herbert