Olympics Quotes · Page 43

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any…

— Dean Koontz

I honestly feel like my job since I was 22 has been to be an Olympian.

— Kerri Walsh

I have fought back. From not being allowed to play, I have now qualified for Olympics in two events, it is satisfying.…

— Jwala Gutta

A lot of the figure skating costumes are kind of revealing, so I think it's nice to have glowing, soft, smooth skin.

— Tessa Virtue

It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

— Dana Hussein

If I had to be in the Olympics, I suppose I would do the javelin throw.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

As soon as I finished skating, watching video of me stealing baseball bags was funny.

— Eddy Alvarez

I took my time with the sport of MMA. I wrestled, won the Olympics. I boxed for years.

— Henry Cejudo

This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard…

— Peter Kauzer

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

It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold…

— Mike Schultz

For me, the first thing I do when I know I have to do the fastest skater is check my edges and…

— Connor McDavid

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in…

— Daley Thompson

Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important…

— Alex Berenson

You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at…

— Bode Miller

It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you'd have to cut out the drinking side of…

— Adrian Lewis

Russia always has been, and I hope always will be, one of the leading international sports countries. Our athletes still produce great…

— Vladimir Putin

I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal…

— Rory McIlroy

I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police,…

— George Foreman

Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the…

— Rafael Nadal

“The Greeks created the Olympics to measure a man’s excellence,” he continued. “It’s the same thing with Basketball – or any other…

— Anonymous

One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question…

— Roy Jones Jr

What snowboarding has always had and the Olympics has not touched is that spirit, that original spirit of creativity and athletes standing…

— Gretchen Bleiler

The waves get high, they get low. It's been a wonderful journey, every bit of it, and that's from every praise to…

— Brent Musburger

It's every kid's dream to be able to grow up and win a gold medal and make a bunch of money and…

— Jerami Grant

The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

— David Coleman

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

— Ryan Lochte

There are no words to describe what it would mean making the Olympic team.

— Max Aaron

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme.

— Shawn Johnson

If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

— Elizabeth Berg

Making the Olympic team was the biggest thing I've ever accomplished. That was something I had to wait four years to accomplish.

— Tori Bowie

For Indian players, qualifying for the Olympics is a feat in itself.

— Jwala Gutta

In speed skating, we want to have the strongest, most powerful lower half of the body and don't want to have any…

— Eddy Alvarez

Representing Australia as an Olympian at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta 1996 were the proudest moments of my sporting career.

— Michael Diamond

When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

— Jimmy Fallon

“Katarina Shaw was in the building, and that bitch had come to win.”

— Layne Fargo

Once I retired from skating, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the chance to come back to…

— Eddy Alvarez

I did not know about awards. I just wanted to break the world record and the Olympic record.

— Milkha Singh

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

— Bode Miller