“Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.” — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered. — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something. — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to… — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
There will be no one like me in the history of Olympics, someone who competed in an Olympic final with one international… — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
I've skateboarded my whole life, and I'm going to keep enjoying it until my age prohibits me. — Jimmi Simpson Copy Share Image
Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered. — Jack Butland Copy Share Image
“no one ever got a gold medal for sittin’ on their ass and doin’ nothin’. You work at somethin’, you work at… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
The Manchester games in 2002 was the breakthrough for me because I won my first individual Gold medal and that gave me… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When the rules of judging skating in international competition changed in 2004 with the goal of making judging more transparent, one of… — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
Career-wise, I was not the most naturally talented ice skater. Of course I had a knack for it , but practice was… — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
I hung out with all the guys in my neighborhood when I was little... I would, like, skateboard and go to skate… — Daniella Monet Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make better choices, and for me, this is kind of a rebirth. If I make the Olympic team? Great.… — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there,… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
![“So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory of it. It still is in the cultural memory and identity of these cities as much as it is in the physical and architectural memory. It's where these two…” quote by Gary Hustwit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c4/gary-hustwit-39684_cities_so-many-people-that-we-met-had-some-sort_1649130.jpg)
