1960s Quote by Dick Ebersol

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

— Bill Toomey

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today…

— Oscar Robertson

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

— Pierre de Coubertin

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

— Jim Courier

We wanted to be World Champions before going to the Olympics.

— Scott Moir

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American…

— Adam Rippon

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80…

— Dorothy Hamill

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

— Debi Thomas

Each Olympics is different with their own great parts to it.

— Jim Boeheim

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an…

— Dick Fosbury

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

Autocratic countries have attempted to leverage hosting the Olympics into legitimizing their stances among the global community: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Russian…

— Michael Waltz