Olympic Games Quotes

114 Olympic Games quotes by 76 unique authors

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the… — Pierre de Coubertin
As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities… — Rick Larsen
I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his… — Mark Spitz
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in… — Aristotle
Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they… — Inge de Bruijn
The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming. — Natalie Coughlin
Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar… — Mark Steel
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 was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but… — David Rudisha
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. — Avery Brundage
If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the… — Andrea Bocelli
I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry… — Shani Davis
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors? — Homer
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't… — Sally Pearson
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. — Tina Maze
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to… — Michel de Montaigne
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national… — Olga Korbut
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games. — Shannon Miller
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. — Olga Korbut
A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin,… — John Wooden
In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which… — Pierre de Coubertin
Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered… — Kristi Yamaguchi
If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes -… — Kurt Angle
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike. — Dave Beard
To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a… — Oscar Pistorius

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