Olympics Quotes · Page 46

Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

— Shaun White

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

— Gracie Gold

It's funny, when guests come over to the house, they want to see my gold medal first and my U.S. Open trophy…

— Justin Rose

Run as much miles as I did and you'll learn the secret of running, but I can't guarantee you'll win in Olympics.

— Lasse Viren

When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

— Colin Jost

Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.

— Nathan Chen

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

— Christa McAuliffe

To be able to make the Olympic team was a surreal feeling, knowing where I started.

— Jerami Grant

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the…

— Brian Boitano

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about…

— T. V. Carpio

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different…

— Libby Trickett

China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to…

— Ai Weiwei

I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented.…

— Tom Scholz

People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my…

— Yuna Kim

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the…

— Misty May-Treanor

I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems…

— Nancy Kerrigan

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright.…

— Martin Jacques

It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the…

— Silken Laumann

The luge is the only Olympic event where you could have people competing in it against their will, and it would look…

— Jerry Seinfeld

A slam dunk or a breakdance move is limited by what the physical body can do. Now, a skateboard is limitless by…

— Rob Dyrdek

“Heath knew me when I was a gangly little girl with bloody kneecaps and prairie grass in my hair. He'd seen me…

— Layne Fargo

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat.…

— Muhammad Ali

I don't want to be an object of consumption. I like to get out there and participate because I care about it.…

— Mike Vallely

I don't have any regrets, really. What I got out of the sport was more than I ever dreamed was possible. We…

— Colleen Jones

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

— Oksana Baiul

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if…

— Paula Radcliffe

You can't just measure yourself solely on winning that medal. It has to be on the everyday experience.

— Scott Moir

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.

— Kristofer Hivju

I like figure skating, because it's articulate, and I'm that type of guy. But hey, we're all weird in our own way.

— Uriah Hall

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

— Tony Hawk

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

— Marion Jones

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

— Wayne Gretzky

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic…

— Dorothy Hamill

The Paralympics defined my life, but they also reach into homes across the nation, redefining public perception of what's possible.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

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

— Gabby Douglas

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

— DeMarcus Cousins

The Olympics is by far the biggest stage of them all for any sportsperson, so I'm looking forward to it.

— Neeraj Chopra

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

— Kenny Baker

I know I'm enough with or without the gold medals. I just love to swim.

— Jessica Long

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

— Mirai Nagasu