Top 1200 Olympic Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.
The London Olympic Opening Ceremony was excellent. The mixture of old and new, of classic and contemporary was a beautiful reflection of Great Britain. Danny Boyle is a genius.
The FIS, BSF, and British Olympic Association have been trying to stop me competing internationally. They don't like the fact that I laugh and have fun and entertain the crowd.
As a British fashion designer, it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative director of Team GB as the hosting nation of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years.
The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend.
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.
Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.
I've always been an outgoing guy. But I know as an athlete, I have an obligation to be a role model.
I'm an athlete. I'm a performer. Why the hell did I never think of combining the two?
Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
No athlete entered 2012 with more and left it with less than Lance Armstrong.
In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.
I'm lucky I've been able to take control, as an older athlete, and pick who I work with.
Ryan Giggs just had an athlete's physique. He could run all day.
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!
We're in a pressure-filled sport for sure, but anything in an Olympic season is heightened, the highs are higher and the lows are lower, and everything just takes on grander proportions.
My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.
If someone told me a couple years ago, 'You're going to be deep into show jumping with horses,' I would be like, I didn't even know that's an Olympic sport.
My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.
I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.
Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.
I went and played football so I can support my family like I wanted to. Track has been my real dream, to be an Olympic champion and God gave me another opportunity.
Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.
Serena's arguably the best athlete of all time, so getting to know her was surreal.
I'd love to work with Charlotte Flair; she's the best athlete in our company.
I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.
I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.
If you say an athlete doesn't need supplementation, that he can get everything through food, you're wrong.
I'm definitely Australian and wouldn't have it any other way. I've been formed as an athlete in Australia.
I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.
Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.
While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
To graduate in four years as a student-athlete with no summer school is quite a feat.
I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.
My school has a bunch of actors and professional kids, like Chloe Grace Moretz, Odeya Rush, and Olympic gymnasts. Basically, anyone who has a job as a kid.
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.
Rose is a very versatile athlete, she works her striking well.
If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.
I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.
