Break Quote by Christopher Michael Cillizza

Every Olympics, they make a big deal out of something - security... traffic... pollution... something - and it really doesn't come true. For me,…

— Jim Boeheim

I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about the athletes…

— Kristin Armstrong

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and…

— Jill Lepore

The Olympics are great, but they only truly mean something when the moments that come out of them are bigger than the individual sports.

— W. Kamau Bell

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're…

— Susan Estrich

Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious…

— Mary Pilon

The Olympics, you have to remember, is an event onto itself; it's unlike anything else. It's a multisport event, you have people from all…

— Donald Fehr

The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of…

— Amy Argetsinger

Olympics is a place where you can be easily distracted to a lot of things and it will seem like a magic world.

— P. R. Sreejesh

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They…

— Misty May-Treanor

Our seasons aren't like most sports, where the climax comes at the end. With us, the Olympics are much more important than anything else.

— Karch Kiraly

One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the…

— Mary Pilon