Top 1200 Olympic Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.
When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy.
I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even if it's only coming in the top 50, then you have a monumental night.
Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.
At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.
While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.
I dreamed of being a professional skater once. I wanted to be a Korean Olympic skater, but I wasn't good enough, so I quit.
The reason why I'm so shredded at 135 is because I'm a professional athlete. I do everything the correct way.
I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.
More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.
To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.
I've done it the hard way - first Olympic gold medallist from Great Britain to win a world title, the 'road warrior.' I love that tag because I do travel.
We do not question an athlete who is disciplined in order to achieve their goals, and yet as parents the same premise is not applied.
I'm not a great athlete that can play any sport. But one thing I could always do is... fight back.
Due to my love for 'Harry Potter,' I have to say my celebrity crush is Emma Watson and my Olympic crush is Gracie Gold.
I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.
I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.
An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers.
I've won an Olympic title and an U-20 World Cup, but it'd be really special to round things off with a Copa title with the seniors.
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.
I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.
I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.
Obviously, diet is important for an athlete, but I don't have anyone telling me, 'You can eat this, but don't try that.'
The reason I like Olympic boxing is that all the best fighters come together and find out who the best fighter is.
We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.
If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.
The only thing that me and Muhammad Ali have in common is that we are both Olympic gold medalists and both very outspoken.
I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... big executive at Columbia Records.
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
It had been a dream of mine to go to an Olympic Games since I was about seven years old. I didn't know I'd do it ski jumping, but that's how it turned out.
Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.
It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.
I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.
The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.
I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.
I found it tough to follow an athlete's lifestyle. But soon, it became a part of my life, and I embraced it.
Our first ever live gig was in front of Buckingham Palace, an Olympic event attended by some of the royal family, and we had to follow James Brown.
Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.
I just feel proud when they say in 'Forbes' magazine that the highest-paid athlete is a fighter.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to Sochi... I want to start anew, not as an Olympic medalist but just as yet another figure skater.
You know Rockhold is a very good athlete and great fighter. He is a champion in Strikeforce, in UFC.
As an athlete, the body can fail you. I know. The mind and your education will be there to keep carrying you.
I will always be grateful for having that opportunity to be part of a home Olympic games. It is a memory I will cherish forever.
I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.
My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.
I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.
P. Diddy's gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he'll always carry for J-Lo in the other.
I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
Once we take care of wellbeing of an athlete then performance will automatically come.
