Olympics Quotes · Page 28

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

— Bill Bowerman

It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.

— Jack Rodwell

Getting a medal is not a small feat, irrespective of what color it is.

— Jwala Gutta

I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

— Neymar

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

— David Letterman

You can slide on my ice like the Escapade and itchy-gitchy-yaya with the marmalade.

— Lil Kim

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

— Hannah Kearney

There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Winning gold medals is incredible and obviously it's what I want to do, but there's something so special about having a little…

— Jessica Long

I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure…

— Emma McKeon

Olympic athletes are a different breed. We're not dealing with million-dollar contracts. We don't do the sport for those deals. We do…

— Rulon Gardner

We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow.…

— Kerri Walsh

One of the great things about the X Games and the Olympics is being on the international stage. It gives you a…

— Nick Goepper

I would dream of being a pro skater, but I never dreamt I'd be discovered by Lance Mountain and Stacey Peralta, who…

— Mike Vallely

Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the…

— Aimee Mullins

It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and…

— Paul Tergat

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will…

— Margaret Atwood

I definitely carry a little bit of a burden with me, being a gay athlete going to the Olympics. I think that…

— Gus Kenworthy

For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major…

— Ronaldinho

One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing…

— Mary Pilon

I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills.…

— Joey Cheek

If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained…

— Pink Floyd

For me being able to see all different places where I've skied and cherish them, and be able to see them -…

— Resi Stiegler

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best.…

— Adam Rippon

“If there were an Olympics for kidding yourself, I’d take home the gold.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot…

— Carolina Kostner

The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning.

— Nathan Chen

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

— Patrick Chan

I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

— Paul Coffey

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

— Adam Ondra

I am pretty pleased. I will be on the Olympic podium, so you can't be more happy.

— Emma McKeon

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

— Apolo Ohno

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

— Natalie du Toit

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party.…

— Ma Jian

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned…

— Charlie White

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

— Evan Sayet

Figure skating, especially the longer performances, are such a feat. It requires so much stamina and is so beautiful.

— Gus Kenworthy

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

— Ban Ki-moon

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate…

— Laurence Fishburne

Rio has been absolutely epic. I did leave my heart out there, and I wanted to do everybody proud.

— Michelle Carter