African Quote by Alex Berenson

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect…

— Ai Weiwei

Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately…

— Jim Brown

The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.

— David Letterman

I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.

— Rulon Gardner

Olympic athletes are a different breed. We're not dealing with million-dollar contracts. We don't do the sport for those deals. We do the sport…

— Rulon Gardner

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

— Apolo Ohno

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're…

— Tina Maze

It's the duty of the federations to make sure that the funds reach the athletes properly. They need to make sure that the athletes…

— Virender Sehwag

[Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they…

— Bernie Ecclestone

The Olympics are only once every four years so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to…

— Lolo Jones

Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public…

— Will Self