Top 1200 Olympic Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another year until Rio, maybe I could even become Olympic champion.
I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972? he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.
I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.
I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.
The Olympic Games are a global celebration of our hopes, our ideals and our values.
My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.
For every athlete, Olympics is the target, but mine is a little different. I am focusing on improving my timing; that's what I think about.
As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.
When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.
I like that kind of weather. Constant drizzle. At the Olympic trials in 2012, my mom was, like, 'It's pouring rain out there, Mary. You shouldn't even notice it. You're Irish.'
I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.
I'm a huge fan of Conor McGregor, an incredible athlete. What he has done for MMA is phenomenal; he has been a great supporter of me.
I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.
For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn't there.
I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.
At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to lose. You have the last four years of your life to lose.
I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.
I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)
McGregor sells the show and fights well, he's a real athlete who doesn't get out of shape and is always training.
I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.
100 percent, I'm a natural athlete. From when I was younger, I played so many different sports and I've got a competitive mindset.
We have had no bonuses for winning Olympic medals, I haven't even had a call from the ABA. I was on assisted performance funding, but I had that stopped.
I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.
As an athlete, when you have a desire and a want to do something, you fight for it. And it doesn't matter how long your journey is; it's whether you give up or don't.
There was a time in my life I wanted that Olympic medal, and all I did was train, train, train and work harder than ever.
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.
Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it's like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.
People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.
I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time.
And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
I'm a professional athlete - one who's supposed to set examples - so whatever it is I put in my body, it's up to me to take responsibility for it, and I have done that.
We want a clean and effective Olympic body where it can help us and Indian sports to grow and we athletes can represent our country and our flag once again.
If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.
Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.
It's not just about women's cricket, but everywhere, every athlete's momentum has been broken because of Covid-19.
I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.
The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.
Me, Kristen [Stewart] and Taylor [ Lautner] stood in the middle of the Olympic stadium with 30,000 people just screaming for 15 minutes. It's absolutely bizarre. There's no way you can ever compute it.
I want to get back on the international stage. I want to bring in Olympic champions to southwestern Ontario and I want it to be done the right way.
Being a Diva, you're a professional athlete and then you get to entertain. It's the best of every aspect, all in one. That's why I fell in love with it.
Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
For most Olympic athletes‚ their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians‚ training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
To win Olympic gold it takes a lot of HARDWORK, a lot of PASSION, a lot of SACRIFICES.
The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
It's an amazing life, don't get me wrong. But being a professional athlete, is... is not as glamorous as everybody sets it out to be.
I know that I'm Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn't change how you look and how people perceive you.
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'
I'm a successful professional athlete, and whatever I'm going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.
