Olympics Quotes · Page 52

I feel, at the national level, shooters should get monetary rewards also, along with medals and a handshake.

— Nana Patekar

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

— Lindsey Vonn

The Olympic Games are a national cause, and a national cause calls for a nationwide attitude.

— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.

— Tim Henman

It would be meaningful if I can get a gold medal in my parents' country.

— Chloe Kim

I've been dealing with the Special Olympics since I was young. On Sundays I used to go help monitor little soccer practices.

— Michael Carter-Williams

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

— Lauren Gibbs

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to…

— Shawn Johnson

Tara (Lipinski) got out there like a bat out of hell and skated her guts out. Michelle skated very well, but she…

— Frank Carroll

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To…

— Daniel L. Doctoroff

I definitely look to people like Usain Bolt and Sanya Richards and especially Allyson Felix, being an American athlete who went pro…

— Mary Cain

I miss seeing real comics, Shecky Greene and Buddy Hackett, those types. I like straight stand-up, talking about the Olympics and why…

— Norm MacDonald

Guys wrestling was gonna be taken out of the Olympics but guess what wrestling is where it's at so we stay in…

— Anonymous

It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal,…

— Adelina Sotnikova

Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base…

— Lindsey Vonn

Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that…

— Vincent Matthews

We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

— Joseph Hagerty

I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a…

— Muhammad Ali

Every Olympics, we always end up having someone on the podium that we had no idea, or we didn't expect them to…

— Patrick Chan

It's like a dream for me, participating in the Olympics, it's so important for my career and I hope to win the…

— Oscar

The pressure is high because of course... everyone's expecting me to win the gold medal in Tokyo.

— Hidilyn Diaz

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

— George Pataki

When you start taking the original sports away from the Olympics, you really change what the Olympic Games are.

— Cael Sanderson

The Olympics are in my blood and everybody knows how much I love my country.

— Alexander Ovechkin

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.

— Angela Kinsey

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

— Stella Young

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

— Andy Murray

When God gave me the chance to compete in the Rio Olympics, I thought that He gave me the chance and I…

— Hidilyn Diaz

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

— Nathan Chen

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything,

— Natalie du Toit

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

— Aly Raisman

Not a day goes by that I don't remember my experience at the Olympics.

— Eddy Alvarez

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

— Steve Yzerman

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

— Kim Yuna

My first gold was in the 2002 cadet national. I realized I was good enough even outside my village and my district.

— Geeta Phogat

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

— Bill Toomey

In Beijing the emotion built and built. I was at a Paralympics and I was so nervous. When I achieved my goal…

— Ellie Simmonds

My parents bought an indoor skatepark in 2003 that was a perfect training facility for me.

— Nyjah Huston

Before Rio, I had never been at the top of the velodrome track but now I train from the top of the…

— Kadeena Cox

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

— Mikaela Shiffrin