Future Quote by Richard Edelman

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a…

— Jimmy Carr

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public…

— Will Self

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect…

— Ai Weiwei

The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.

— Jean Drapeau

I see the opportunity to pursue an Olympic berth as a chance of a lifetime.

— MyKayla Skinner

What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to…

— Richard Attias

The Olympics are the ultimate.

— Cael Sanderson

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or…

— George Packer

I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.

— Rulon Gardner

The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.

— David Letterman

It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.

— Jack Rodwell

[Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they…

— Bernie Ecclestone