Cash Quote by David Letterman

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

— Conan O'Brien

Athletes will get result with training and proper exposure. Money should be spent on them for exposure. We should send them for competitions in…

— P. T. Usha

African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games…

— Alex Berenson

Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our…

— Stephen Colbert

They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level,…

— Dorothy Hamill

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

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…

— Inge de Bruijn

It's not as easy as that... it's disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.

— Bernie Ecclestone

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

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

— George Nethercutt

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

— Rulon Gardner

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or…

— George Packer