Around the world Quote by Johnny Weir

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

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate…

— Daley Thompson

Obviously, the competition at an Olympics, the emotions are running high, and the stakes are higher for these athletes, so it does bring an…

— Tara Lipinski

To play the role of a sports champion, I first needed to break my body and become supremely fit to convincingly look like a…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

To be able to make the Olympic team was a surreal feeling, knowing where I started.

— Jerami Grant

In Beijing the emotion built and built. I was at a Paralympics and I was so nervous. When I achieved my goal all that…

— Ellie Simmonds

At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I…

— Olena Vitrychenko

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

I didn't want people to think of me as someone who wasn't impressed with a silver medal, because obviously that's a huge accomplishment, and…

— McKayla Maroney

To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the…

— Julia Mancuso

I didn't know how I was going to get to the Olympics, and in the beginning, I didn't really care. And that was the…

— Gretchen Bleiler

I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't know what the Olympics was…

— Bob Beamon