Misconceptions Quote by 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

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

The Olympics are never just about sports.

— George Packer

Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games.

— Casey Eastham

There is always that one person in gym class who thinks they're in the Olympics.

— Anonymous

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

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

Each Olympics is different.

— Tobin Heath

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

— Shannon Miller

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

— Tina Maze

We shouldn't be fixated to one sport. The Olympics come once in four years, and every athlete works very hard towards that. It's so…

— Abhinav Bindra

When you start taking the original sports away from the Olympics, you really change what the Olympic Games are.

— Cael Sanderson