Bars Quote by Mark Steel

“The Olympics.  He knew well the allure of the Games having been there three times.  Wanting that gold medal was like a drug”

— Eleanor Webb

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

— Eddie the Eagle

Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three.

— Elana Meyers

A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De…

— John Wooden

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

— Pierre de Coubertin

“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the Universe of…

— William Bolitho

Bobsled is the first time I decided, win, lose, or draw, I was all-in for all four years. I figured if I was going…

— Lauren Gibbs

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

— Marian Dragulescu

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

— Jack Nicholson

“It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been…

— Eric Liddell

For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings.' Well, 'Cool Runnings' was, of course, four men in a bobsled,…

— Elana Meyers

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and…

— Daley Thompson