Arena Quote by Shannon Miller

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

— Bela Karolyi

We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the…

— Nick Goepper

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

Our seasons aren't like most sports, where the climax comes at the end. With us, the Olympics are much more important than anything else.

— Karch Kiraly

Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in…

— Laurie Hernandez

The Olympic Games has been important to our family. My wife was always really into it, she was a gymnast growing up and the…

— Justin Rose

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

We wanted to be World Champions before going to the Olympics.

— Scott Moir

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They…

— Misty May-Treanor

When you think of the Olympics, you think of wrestling. It was a marquee event in ancient Greece and in the modern Games. After…

— Cael Sanderson

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

— Shawn Johnson

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when…

— Shawn Johnson