Olympics Quotes · Page 53

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

— Apolo Ohno

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

— Natalie du Toit

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party.…

— Ma Jian

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

— David Letterman

You can slide on my ice like the Escapade and itchy-gitchy-yaya with the marmalade.

— Lil Kim

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

— Hannah Kearney

There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“If there were an Olympics for kidding yourself, I’d take home the gold.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns…

— Rick Larsen

Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in,…

— Adam Rippon

I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That…

— Craig Ferguson

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the…

— Lance Armstrong

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's…

— Al Oerter

A gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics is what I'm looking for. I have to pace my training in such a…

— Mary Kom

An American judo fighter was expelled from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Officials became suspicious when he kept stopping the…

— Conan O'Brien

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries…

— Jesse Owens

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot…

— Carolina Kostner

The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning.

— Nathan Chen

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

— Patrick Chan

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

— Gracie Gold

I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a…

— Lauren Gibbs

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!

— Elana Meyers

Wrestling is the Olympics. It's the toughest, more grueling, most demanding and most humbling sport there is.

— Jake Herbert

It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.

— Jack Rodwell

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

— Bill Bowerman

Getting a medal is not a small feat, irrespective of what color it is.

— Jwala Gutta

I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

— Neymar

I'm a very, very, very avid skateboarder. I skate every day when I'm at home. I have a half-pipe in my back…

— Sky Blu

The Olympics are a completely different beast. It's the most magical moment of your career.

— Hilary Knight

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

— Mirai Nagasu

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

— Johnny Weir

I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.

— Eva Mendes

When you go to a shooting competition, you don't know what medal you're going to finish with.

— Abhinav Bindra

I have no regrets coming back for a second Olympic team [in 2016]. It's been an amazing experience. It's been teaching me…

— Gabby Douglas

When I think of the Olympics - and I'm a little biased - but wrestling comes right to mind.

— Cael Sanderson

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.

— Hidilyn Diaz

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

— Eddie the Eagle

“Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.”

— Yann Martel

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.

— Jack Butland