Top 109 Olympian Quotes & Sayings

If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.

When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.

I was as popular as you can be - All-NBA, Olympian. You couldn't get any higher than where I was.

I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

It's always something that's played on my mind, being an Olympian, so hopefully we get there and do the job at the World Cup.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

To be an Olympian - not many people can say that. But first of all, I've got to make the team, and I know a lot of hard work is going to go into it, so hopefully it pays off.

I hope that as a professional snowboarder, Olympian, and now, a Global Ambassador for Special Olympics, I will be able to change perceptions about people with intellectual disabilities.

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

Cejudo would be awesome. It would be an honor to go out and fight an Olympian.

I've dreamed of winning a national championship and I've dreamed of being an Olympian.

I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

I'm a two-time Olympian, but ever since I was a little girl, the Olympic dream has influenced me.

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

It's always been a dream of mine to be an Olympian.

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

I've been training like an Olympian.

There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice go for the Olympian.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

I'm a two-time Olympian, but on the front and back end of both of those were two Olympics where I narrowly missed making the team.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

To be an Olympian is not flattering for any partner that's with you. It's a really selfish part of your life.

The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing feeling.

You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.

I've been running track since I was five. I could name down every single Olympian that ran hurdles.

I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.

When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'

It means a lot to be an Olympian. I'm obviously so grateful and feel so lucky I was able to achieve my dream of winning an Olympic gold medal.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream.

You don't become an Olympic medallist overnight and even after you do become an Olympian it doesn't make everything go away and you have this perfect life.

I wanted to be an Olympian.

I finally get to be an Olympian.

I'd like to be a three-time Olympian.

I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey.

To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure.

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.

As an Olympian, I wear that flag and I've gone all over the world. I've represented the United States, so I have a deep pride for our flag.

First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay. I don't mind reading that - like, 'gay Olympian Adam Rippon.' It's fine. I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians.

If you are an Olympian you are considered to be the best, like Kobe and 'Melo.

NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

I honestly feel like my job since I was 22 has been to be an Olympian.

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.