Olympics Quotes · Page 40

My school have been so supportive in the balance between my sport and my studying, ever since I won the two golds…

— Ellie Simmonds

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

— Heather Mills

But post my victory in Beijing, I actually wanted to quit sport and move on to something else in life.

— Abhinav Bindra

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

— Patrick Ewing

When I was growing up, you could get arrested for skateboarding, and now it's going to be in the Olympics.

— Ti West

I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

— Adelina Sotnikova

I watched the Olympics in 2012 in London, and there were so many great performances there, so many people, so many sports.

— Son Heung-min

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

— Hermann Maier

And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a…

— Shannon Miller

I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor,…

— Osric Chau

I don't know if any of us imagined we would ever be up here getting ready to skate in the Olympics. But…

— Nyjah Huston

“You remember what you told me, Mom? That there are no medals for the completion of a good life? I’ve been thinking…

— J.A. Konrath

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had…

— Paula Radcliffe

Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher…

— Jay Leno

It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands…

— Meghan Agosta-Marciano

I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the…

— David Neeleman

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that…

— Charlie Pierce

How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the…

— Nicolas Cage

I think educating myself has been huge. I feel like the way it's presented in the media is that if you got…

— Kerri Walsh

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard…

— Jason Lee

I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every…

— Summer Sanders

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so…

— Anonymous

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this…

— Ban Ki-moon

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention…

— Dan O'Brien

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

— Gabby Douglas

I got a gold medal. I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.

— Shaun White

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

— Emily Atack

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

— Homer

If the Olympics were more like the Hunger Games I think I'd probably watch more of it.

— Anonymous

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

— Sergei Bubka

Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.

— McKayla Maroney

I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.

— Chael Sonnen

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

— Craig Ferguson

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

— Bill Parcells

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

Next stop, London!! So excited for the Olympic Games, they're finally here!

— Rebecca Soni

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

— Shashi Tharoor

Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.

— Hannah Teter

Coming out of the worlds with a team gold medal was a real good confidence booster.

— Jordyn Wieber

This is an Olympic-level type of sport and it needs to be cleaned up.

— Tony Ferguson