Top 1200 Olympic Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

It's really incredible to win an Olympic Gold in your home city.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

Thank you guys for believing in my ability and supporting me in my Olympic journey.

I'm thrilled that I was able to share my first Olympic Games experience with my U.S. teammates.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

I've played in many different environments and at the highest level at an Olympic Games.

Most people should be given a chance to compete in the Olympic Games.

There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.

Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.

I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.

It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.

The Olympics is still my greatest achievement... I have many belts, but there is only one Olympic gold.

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

The mistakes you make and lessons you learn at a young age are what gets you to an Olympic level.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

The Olympic Games showed us that with self-discipline and dedication we can be champions.

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

I am pretty pleased. I will be on the Olympic podium, so you can't be more happy.

The reality is that there are half a billion kids in India, in villages, who have a pre-determined life. If they're very lucky and they're a gifted athlete, maybe they can compete for the Olympics, or maybe they can get into the military. But if you're not a gifted athlete, then you're going to end up working for your family and you're going to perpetuate what your family is. It's gotten to the point, in villages, where there's no hope. And the first spark of hope is when you ask yourself the question,"What gift did God give me that I can develop and use to better my life?"

We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

I want to be recognised as exemplifying the Olympic spirit - one of the last true Olympians.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

I want to get another Olympic medal outside the team event.

I can freestyle for a while, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer who can go two or three miles.

I think we should follow the Olympic charter and the guidelines as the whole world is following it.

At the end of the day, standing on the Olympic podium on the top is what we're all really searching for here.

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

My one and only focus at the Olympic Games is to win a gold medal.

I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

Kurt Angle is an Olympic gold medalist, one of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time.

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care - I'm Olympic champion.

When you win an Olympic gold, it is such a powerful feeling that stays with you for the rest of your life.

I wasn't jumping like Carl Lewis, but I still won an Olympic title.

We went out there as a team and believed we could win. I am an Olympic champion.

If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.

Anything can happen. Everybody is working to be on that team and to win the Olympic Games.

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.