Olympics Quotes · Page 47

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it…

— Dick Ebersol

I don't know anybody that is like super close friends but also competing for the same medal. That would be kinda odd.

— Christian Coleman

Nations should show their countries strength/power through winning medals.Not war medals but Olympic medals.

— Mehde H Choudhury

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

— George Pataki

I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after…

— Hima Das

If you ever have the option, come to the Olympics. It's, like, a fun time.

— Adam Rippon

I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.

— Rylan Clark-Neal

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

— Mary Lou Retton

Anybody that Tessa and I end up with in our personal lives would have to understand how much we love skating and…

— Scott Moir

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that…

— Dorothy Hamill

In my teens, I had no idea about running as a sports event. For me, an orphan, it was not only about…

— Milkha Singh

Gold slipped from my hand at the Rome Olympics and then from P.T. Usha at the Los Angeles Olympics. But it is…

— Milkha Singh

“fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment–its five…

— Anonymous

Special Olympics is such an empowering organization for the thousands of athletes involved and those of us like myself who lend support…

— Natalya Neidhart

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina.…

— Derek Jacobi

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to,…

— Brian Boitano

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more…

— Ryan Hall

My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and…

— David Rudisha

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going…

— Ashton Eaton

My dad was an incredibly brave man, completely dedicated to his family, with a love for all. If I could be half…

— Tom Daley

As a kid growing up, I didn't want to tell any of my classmates I did figure-skating because I knew they'd be…

— Nathan Chen

The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater…

— Yuna Kim

Four years ago, I was thinking… no Olympics, who am I? Probably in ’04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics…

— Raj Bhavsar

I was so proud to have the chance to be able to represent Canada at the Olympics in Vancouver.

— Patrick Chan

To me, the Olympics are very important, obviously, but it's not something that I'm gonna change everything for.

— Chloe Kim

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it…

— Evgeni Plushenko

In BMX, you need an inner mongrel, something that's a point of difference in the female category.

— Caroline Buchanan

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

— Kenny Baker

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics.

— Gracie Gold

Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

— Ted Ligety

Sometimes, as an athlete, you think everything you touch can turn into gold.

— Robert Horry

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.

— Ian MacKaye

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall…

— Lolo Jones

Playing with Rafa, getting my first Olympics medal - hopefully not the last one - it's been a special one.

— Carlos Alcaraz

Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.

— Tonya Harding

What is great about being in sport was when you won, you got a gold medal and you knew you had won.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

— Ma Jian

When we won gold I was expecting overwhelming relief, but it just didn't come.

— Stephanie Labbe

“she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport”

— Marlene Perez