Friendship Quote by Juan Antonio Samaranch

Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the…

— Jacques Rogge

When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The…

— Michelle Kwan

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

— Avery Brundage

The initial feelings when you step into the Olympic arena representing your country, your community, representing yourself can be really overwhelming.

— Denise Lewis

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto,…

— Chris Cleave

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic…

— Richard Attias

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

— Daley Thompson

The Olympics was really, really stressful because I had never done anything like it. At the same time, I was understanding something like that…

— Laurie Hernandez

One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an…

— Herbert Hainer

It is extremely difficult to get a medal at the World Championships, even more than the Olympics. And when one is not 100 per…

— Geeta Phogat

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