Athlete Quote by Johnny Weir

I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about the athletes…

— Kristin Armstrong

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

— Avery Brundage

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the…

— Richard Gere

The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to…

— Terre Thaemlitz

I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy…

— Sidney Crosby

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

— Jackie Chan

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've…

— Larry Ellison

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

— Lauren Gibbs

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

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

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 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