Olympics Quotes · Page 33

I want more gold medals. I only got two in Rio so it would be nice to make it four.

— Kadeena Cox

The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.

— P. T. Usha

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to…

— Sarah Hughes

I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

— Brian Boitano

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

— Bonnie Blair

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

— Scott Hamilton

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

— Mikaela Shiffrin

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister,…

— Diana Lopez

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I…

— Dan O'Brien

There are tons of great names who have gotten fourth at their first Olympics, and they just kept with it for the…

— Gracie Gold

Our seasons aren't like most sports, where the climax comes at the end. With us, the Olympics are much more important than…

— Karch Kiraly

I want to get back on the international stage. I want to bring in Olympic champions to southwestern Ontario and I want…

— Scott Moir

For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the…

— Cathy Freeman

You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for…

— Ronald Reagan

I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday…

— Brad Alan Lewis

Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in…

— Sebastian Coe

I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the…

— Daniel Tosh

All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and…

— Kurt Browning

Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After…

— Michio Kaku

As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being:…

— Byron Katie

When you think of the Olympics, you think of wrestling. It was a marquee event in ancient Greece and in the modern…

— Cael Sanderson

If you're 14 and you're skinny, you can't be on the football team, basically. It's just not even really possible. But skating…

— James Mercer

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!'…

— Phillip Phillips

There was a time in my life I wanted that Olympic medal, and all I did was train, train, train and work…

— Yoel Romero

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast…

— Clara Hughes

Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... He's legit.

— Tony Hawk

I want to break the world record, win Olympic gold and win World Championship gold.

— Armand Duplantis

I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.

— Nyjah Huston

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

— Mary Lou Retton

Maybe Japan should've run faster in the Olympics if someone had just yelled 'Godzilla' Stay thirsty my friends!

— Anonymous

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

— Johnny Weir

If no-eye contact sex were a sport, I'm not saying I'd make it to the Olympics, but I like my chances.

— Dov Davidoff

I had the world against me. I was told I shouldn't be doing sport and that I wouldn't go to the Paralympics.…

— Kadeena Cox

Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not…

— Mark Spitz

When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the…

— J. R. Celski

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

— Dick Pound

I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

— Mikaela Shiffrin

My real goal is the Olympics. It's going to be tough but it was very good preparation to play here.

— Anastasia Myskina