Olympics Quotes
437 Olympics quotes by 286 unique authors
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
— Zara Phillips
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I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of…
— Osric Chau
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The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event.
— Yuna Kim
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The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge…
— Yuna Kim
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After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the…
— Yuna Kim
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I had trouble finding my next goal after winning a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but the interest of the public and my fans…
— Yuna Kim
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I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was…
— Yuna Kim
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What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform…
— Richard Attias
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Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any…
— Richard Attias
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Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school.…
— Dominique Dawes
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If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international…
— John Ridley
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Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts.
— Spencer Kayden
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My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of…
— Amit Bhatia
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I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope…
— Nick Goepper
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I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press…
— Nick Goepper
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Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
— Don Kardong
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The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.
— Shashi Tharoor
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Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing…
— Martin Jacques
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Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China.…
— Martin Jacques
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Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of…
— Dominique Moceanu
Who Wrote These Olympics Quotes
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