I'm extremely content with my silver and bronze medals. But once I won the gold, I fell in love. — Tori Bowie Copy Share Image
The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big. — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love the Olympics. Something about the Olympics just makes everything competitive. — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's really no hope of anyone turning off the Olympics to watch something on Fox. — Seth Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Coach Arsene Wenger would have liked to have kept me, but then I opted to go to the Olympics. — Serge Gnabry Copy Share Image
Nagpur to Kanyakumari and Kashmir, future Olympic medallists can come from anywhere. It is the passion that drives you, not the city,… — P. V. Sindhu Copy Share Image
I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so… — Kurt Browning Copy Share Image
America's seen me go from Olympic glory to 'Biggest Loser'. I want to go back to Olympic glory again. It's kind of… — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games.… — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college… — Anne Donovan Copy Share Image
...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team.… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image
You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
When I got the women's marathon into the Olympics and we had races all over the world I thought, 'That's great, now… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200… — Bill Bowerman Copy Share Image
I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games.… — Adam Rippon Copy Share Image
Growing up, you always dream of winning a gold medal. But coming into these Games, it wasn't something I was focused on.… — Cindy Klassen Copy Share Image
The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
After I got my gold medal, I thought, 'This isn't just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts. — Abhinav Bindra Copy Share Image
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal. — Laura Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“She was back on her skates, twirling expertly about the slippery surface of her life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike. — Kodi Smit-McPhee Copy Share Image
I think at times I get treated a bit unfairly, but then so do other athletes in Australia, and I feel like… — Nick Kyrgios Copy Share Image
Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool. — Eric Shanteau Copy Share Image
I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. — Zara Phillips Copy Share Image
It would be nice to win a gold medal and then sit back and watch Mark win one, too. — Dave Schultz Copy Share Image
The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any less on the line in the Olympics than there is any other time. — Joe Thornton Copy Share Image
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents. — Clara Hughes Copy Share Image
