Being Quote by Tom Izzo

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

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

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

— Dan Gable

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and…

— John Ridley

The Olympics is where you see out of this world performances, isn't it?

— Mark Cavendish

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

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 a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I've worked so hard to get this far.

— MyKayla Skinner

The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of…

— Amy Argetsinger

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 Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.

— Sasha Cohen

What snowboarding has always had and the Olympics has not touched is that spirit, that original spirit of creativity and athletes standing up and…

— Gretchen Bleiler