Top 1200 Olympic Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.

To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.

Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks, they talk about what's wrong with America. Well, he's an athlete who is also saying something is wrong with America. Why is it that when he talks, people say, 'How can he talk about oppression and make millions?' Well, Trump is talking about it. Hillary Clinton is talking about it. And they have more money than most athletes.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

I was a horrible athlete.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

I don't think revenge is enough to fuel the fire it takes to go to an Olympic Games and be successful.

Last night I went out for Chinese. I picked up a Team USA Olympic uniform.

The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

I wasn't a great athlete.

It's like a dream come true, coming to the Olympic trails and leaving being the champion.

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

I try not to be a typical athlete.

I was a terrible athlete.

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

For an athlete, the country is everything.

The Olympic Rings tattoo has played its part and will continue to motivate me.

It's painful to see that after Independence, India hasn't won a single Olympic medal in athletics.

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.

You don't win the Olympic to make millions. People are always like, 'Where is your Lamborghini?'

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

I was not an athlete in college.

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

I am an athlete, a warrior.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given.

Holmstrom has broken an Olympic record by being cross checked 46 times in one game!

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

I think I'm a good athlete.

To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.

If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.

You can't be an athlete and doubt yourself.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.

There is a pressure in this country that comes from being a boxer with an Olympic medal and then turning pro.

It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.

My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.

I'm not the best athlete.

I hated motivators - never been a motivator. Motivation is like a warm bath, and you should take a bath probably, but you need more than that; you need strategy. I was a strategist, but nobody responded to that, so I was, like, "OK, what am I? I'm a coach. I'm not a guru." As an athlete, I had great coaches, and I was a better athlete than many of them, but they still were better than I was as a coach because they could see when I couldn't see. I thought, that's great, because I'm not better than anybody, but I do have the skills that I can help people.

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

It has always been a dream to win either the Olympic gold medal or the World Cup.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.

Olympic wrestling is like using an old Nokia phone; it's fairly basic.

I'm an athlete in general.

I'm not a very good athlete.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

It's very special that the Olympics is in London. As a first Olympic experience, it's going to be pretty incredible.