Top 1200 London Olympics Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
I've been living in England for a while, and I am still trying to figure out why we have Great Britain playing the Olympics together and England in football.
I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.
I've always known I was going to perform and live in London.
When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it — and everybody was talking about it — that I decided to keep it.
I've always had a fascination with gymnastics, since I was a kid. It was the one thing at the Olympics that I would be like, 'Mom can I stay up late to watch gymnastics?'
The London fans know what I bring to the table. Destruction.
The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.
London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.
London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.
In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch.
It always has been a goal of mine to compete in the Olympics. Right after I graduated from college, I moved out to Salt Lake City with my mind focused on making the 2014 team.
I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.
Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.
London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.
The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.
When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.
I've found that my humor goes over big in London.
L'Etoile, in Soho, is the best French restaurant in London.
I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't know what the Olympics was all about. I was just hanging out on the street. I was not humble. I was not a nice person, doing things that were socially unacceptable.
I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).
I come from the ghetto in Brazil, where we don't have a lot of career opportunities, so I'm sure my family and people who live there never imagined that one day I'd become a singer and be able to perform at an event like the Olympics.
I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.
I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.
Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
For 'Guest Iin London,' I got a lot of appreciation.
You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.
At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.
London has always held a special place in my heart.
I have confidence in how I've trained and prepared myself. I've dreamed about the Olympics for a long time, and it would be kind of silly and a waste to freak myself out.
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me.
Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
I'm from Peterborough, which is two hours north of London.
If you cut me open I bleed East London.
The London Library in Piccadilly is the best place for a sleep.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
I feel very at home in London for some reason.
I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.
London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season.
China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.
When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
I thought the 60s in London was normal, so when it stopped it was a shock.
The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
New York has a great energy, but London is better.
In 2009, I was living in London and getting work I enjoyed.
Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.
I have been in kind of a sexual dry spell lately. In the past few years I've only had sex in months that end in arch... in years that have an Olympics.
I came to London when I was 16 and lived with my older sister.
Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad 'it was like the Special Olympics or something.' Disability, by Obama's definition, was about difference and failure.
Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
Competing in London would be a dream come true.
[Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they could [invest] in a Formula One race, they don't want to do it.
The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
