Architecture Quote by Gary Hustwit

So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some…

— Gary Hustwit

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned…

— Gary Hustwit

Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities, but they…

— Gary Hustwit

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and…

— Gary Hustwit

To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.

— Abhinav Bindra

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

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts…

— Laurence Fishburne

The Olympics are just different. I'm not sure why; the pipe's the same size, the board you're riding is the same, you're competing against…

— Chloe Kim

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future.…

— Franz Beckenbauer

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

— Lauren Gibbs

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design…

— Ai Weiwei

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