Olympics Quotes · Page 53

If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be…

— Yuna Kim

My father represented India at the Olympics, and I also want to do that.

— Jeev Milkha Singh

Gold medal always feels great. In fact, any appreciation or acknowledgement is a great morale booster.

— Dutee Chand

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

— Joe Calzaghe

I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring…

— Heather Mills

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

— Tony Hawk

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

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even…

— Ryan Lochte

That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.

— Amy Purdy

Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset…

— Jim McKay

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone…

— Lydia Ko

I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine…

— Michelle Jenneke

When the Olympics comes around, it seems like every country is against each other, but we're all buddies out here. It's about…

— Hannah Teter

Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That…

— Janine Shepherd

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off…

— Gail Devers

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

That's where the very best players in the league end up - the Olympics.

— Jrue Holiday

For Infiniti, the global coverage that Formula One provides is second only to the Olympics.

— Christian Horner

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and…

— Marianne Vos

The Olympic Games is the most important tournament for Russian guys.

— Alexander Ovechkin

Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

— Zach Braff

I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no…

— Jim Carrey

To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing…

— Sonny Bill Williams

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process…

— Abhinav Bindra

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I love my country. That's the thing about the Olympics. You're doing it for your country.

— Scotty Lago

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

— Milkha Singh

When we get off the line in skating we kind of look like little ducks running.

— Eddy Alvarez

I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very…

— Chloe Kim

I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to.

— Irina Slutskaya

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any…

— Kyle Kinane

I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

— Saara Aalto

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

— Bryan Ferry

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

— Katarina Witt

The Olympics should be something so special, but I feel like it was definitely miserable at times.

— MyKayla Skinner

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

— Sally Ride

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

— Johnny Carson