About Quote by Jill Lepore

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents…

— John Williams

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

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

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

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

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.

— Sasha Cohen

Big moments like the Olympics tend to freeze things in place. It's just very hard to break through the news cycle with peoples's eyes…

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

The Olympic Games are a global celebration of our hopes, our ideals and our values.

— Laurel Hubbard

The Olympics is about representing your country, and if you get an opportunity to play you give it all you have.

— P.K. Subban

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 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