Olympics Quotes · Page 33

It's like a dream come true, coming to the Olympic trails and leaving being the champion.

— Tori Bowie

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

— Seth Godin

Nobody is on the Paralympic Team until three months before those games.

— Heather Mills

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

— Dawn Fraser

I grew up watching swimming and amazing athletes in Australia and grew up wanting to do the same.

— Emma McKeon

I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... big…

— Johnny Mathis

I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak.

— Mark Roberts

Figure skating is such an individual sport, but to have a teammate on the podium with you is unbelievable.

— Kaetlyn Osmond

Winning the Asian Games is about the most important thing I have achieved for my country, and seeing the delight on the…

— Son Heung-min

Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and…

— Rob Dyrdek

“Pair skating was about unity, about trust, timing, anticipation, and synchronization. It was about two people almost becoming one, but still somehow…

— Mariana Zapata

You don't become an Olympic medallist overnight and even after you do become an Olympian it doesn't make everything go away and…

— Stephanie Labbe

The Manchester games in 2002 was the breakthrough for me because I won my first individual Gold medal and that gave me…

— Chris Hoy

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It…

— Venus Williams

“no one ever got a gold medal for sittin’ on their ass and doin’ nothin’. You work at somethin’, you work at…

— Kristen Ashley

As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I…

— Arnold Palmer

The stable funding announced today will allow Special Olympics to grow and benefit an increasing number of Canadians. I am proud that…

— Jim Flaherty

(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of a holistic…

— Trey Hardee

“I don't get or like human interest. Back before the Plague, it had ruined all sorts of stuff. The Olympics for one.…

— John Ringo

The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made…

— Anthony Lane

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells…

— Tony Hawk

I think we've got every chance of being an Olympic sport and, if they did put us in, I know they'd sell…

— Phil Taylor

I think the Invictus Games is something the world needs to know more about. What it does for the competitors and what…

— John Cena

When I got the women's marathon into the Olympics and we had races all over the world I thought, 'That's great, now…

— Kathrine Switzer

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale,

— Boris Johnson

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

— Katie Taylor

I think someone that won the Olympics in snowboarding but didn't win X Games would feel like their career was incomplete.

— Travis Pastrana

I want to be the top man in our sport. I want to be that guy everyone wants to see skate.

— Max Aaron

Everyone wants to represent their country and my dream is to one day play in the Olympics.

— Jrue Holiday

I've actually said 'get off my grass' to people before. They were skateboarding on my grass!

— Kim Shattuck

Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff…

— James DeGale

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

— Nancy Kerrigan

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.

— Tom Stoppard

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

— Valeria Golino

I work with a team of coaches and trainers to make me feel like I am not alone out on the ice.

— Kaetlyn Osmond

I think back to my time when I was skating: I was 15, and there was no such thing as Instagram.

— Tara Lipinski

It's safe to say that if sucking it in were a sport, I'd be an Olympian.

— Anonymous

If being a douche was an Olympic sport, I know some people that would have a gold medal!

— Anonymous

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't…

— Mary Kom

The Olympics are an emotional roller-coaster. You cant be too disappointed with results because things dont always go your way.

— Adam Gilchrist