Olympics Quotes · Page 28

I came from a remote village, I didn't know what running was, or the Olympics.

— Milkha Singh

If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

— Kimberley Locke

This is an Olympic-level type of sport and it needs to be cleaned up.

— Tony Ferguson

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

— Miranda Hart

Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.

— Hannah Teter

Coming out of the worlds with a team gold medal was a real good confidence booster.

— Jordyn Wieber

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners…

— Ryan Hall

To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.

— Abhinav Bindra

Kuala Lumpur was my first ever multi-sports games. I didn't do very well but the experience and enjoyment I had of those…

— Chris Hoy

I can't even begin to explain how important it is to all the people who have been involved in our program, and…

— Lauren Jackson

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great…

— Shaun White

Toronto will be the best Pan American Games ever. As PASO’s President, I have said several times that I want to end…

— Mario Vazquez

It eventually ends, and that's what I think a lot of athletes forget. It's 10 years after the Olympics, and you won…

— Max Aaron

I would never even think about skating with somebody else. The whole reason I wanted to come back to skating was to…

— Scott Moir

It's funny. I competed against a 13-year old girl at the Winter X Games. I looked down at her birth date and…

— Kelly Clark

My support system, in my surgeon, my P.T., my pilates, my weightlifting, everything that I'm doing to make my body and my…

— Kerri Walsh

I never planned to be at the height of my career when I was 30 years old and going to my fourth…

— Kelly Clark

Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of…

— Dennis Kucinich

When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could…

— Gayle Forman

During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before…

— Josee Chouinard

What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in…

— Mark Steyn

The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared…

— Mariel Zagunis

I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the…

— Giles Duley

I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running…

— Mitt Romney

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

— Laura Wilkinson

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

— Nadia Comaneci

Nobody wants to lose medals. They mean a lot and when they get taken away from you it's tough.

— Reece James

I'm extremely content with my silver and bronze medals. But once I won the gold, I fell in love.

— Tori Bowie

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else…

— Sebastian Coe

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that…

— Hannah Kearney

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

— Scott Hamilton

I love the Olympics. Something about the Olympics just makes everything competitive.

— Bryan Greenberg

The best boxers don't always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please God, that won't happen…

— Katie Taylor

There's really no hope of anyone turning off the Olympics to watch something on Fox.

— Seth Macfarlane

Coach Arsene Wenger would have liked to have kept me, but then I opted to go to the Olympics.

— Serge Gnabry

Michael Phelps is a beast. He's like a human fish. It's really impressive.

— Nina Agdal

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

— Dan Gable

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

— Scott Hamilton

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

— Frank Zappa

My mother was a skier who represented Hungary in the 1936 Olympics, and she was very health-conscious.

— Princess Michael of Kent