Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad. — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn't think of being in the Olympics some day. — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
Who am I just to give up on track? This is something I've dreamed about since I was 9 years old, being… — Marquise Goodwin Copy Share Image
I wore No. 24 at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada - one bib on the back and one on the… — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
It's an Olympic year, man, and crazy stuff always happens in an Olympic year. — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
After the Olympics I was going to a lot of functions and found that if I was eating badly my energy levels… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years. — Sally Pearson Copy Share Image
Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will… — Abebe Bikila Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to come out and win the gold, and sometimes it takes a personal best, sometimes it doesn't. But to be… — Michelle Carter Copy Share Image
It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could… — Billy Joe Saunders Copy Share Image
The medal just was an object, just a medal, and that's it. What really meant something was the blood, the sweat, the… — Henry Cejudo Copy Share Image
Before going to the L.A. Olympics, I had participated in only two competitions in 400m hurdles. Yet I came close to a… — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
They usually say that after the Olympic Games, somebody's life changes forever, and a lot of times, it's the gold medalist. But… — Adam Rippon Copy Share Image
[Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all hastily dressed except for… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a… — Arthur Lydiard Copy Share Image
I appreciate all the people I've met through curling. It's been woven through the story of my life. But that win-at-all-costs attitude… — Colleen Jones Copy Share Image
On the ice, I feel like I can become a different person, and the darker dramatics, the Black Swan, is confident: she's… — Kaetlyn Osmond Copy Share Image
I decided to host my show 'Kiss and Cry' hoping that people actually want to participate and feel more familiar with figure… — Yuna Kim Copy Share Image
“When two souls stand on ice, it is easy to say which one is leading the movement and which one is following.… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
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