Any Quote by Jim McKay

I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Winning that team-pursuit Olympic gold medal was unbelievable.

— Geraint Thomas

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

— Debi Thomas

I couldn't believe just how emotional I was about the London Olympics. Before the Games even started, I was reading a newspaper sitting in…

— Tessa Virtue

I lost in the amateurs, losing a controversial fight that stopped me going to an Olympic Games - and it's not a nice feeling.

— Callum Smith

I remember losing my first rec soccer game and being so mad and so upset. Most kids don't think about that when they're 3…

— Justin Tucker

For me, back in Sydney, it was just being there and going out and beating Alexander Karelin, 13-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist.…

— Rulon Gardner

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes,…

— Johnny Weir

You get these young kids who are training their whole life to go to the Olympics. To go there and not fight someone else…

— David Haye

Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the…

— Thomas Boswell

I loved the Olympics.

— Per Mertesacker

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

— Bonnie Blair