Top 1200 Olympic Games Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.

Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication.

To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They're so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.

I'm not a huge video game person. I used to always play wrestling video games growing up. My brother used to have all the games, so we would play together.

If you have less games, less back-to-backs, the product's better. The fans will appreciate it more. You see those college guys playing so hard, but they play 36 games in the same amount of time we play 82 almost.

To win an Olympic gold would be very special for me.

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

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

Winning that team-pursuit Olympic gold medal was unbelievable.

I see the opportunity to pursue an Olympic berth as a chance of a lifetime.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized.

That people believe I can be Olympic champ, it just spurs me on.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

I never won a Vezina Trophy until I won the Olympic gold medal.

All my life I've been that way - ever since I was a kid. It doesn't matter whether we played video games or even before that when we had board games when you played with your sister and mom and dad - I didn't like losing then and didn't want to do anything but win when we played.

I've actually carried the Olympic torch through Stoke-on-Trent.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It's overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it's still different. It's all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.

I want to be European, world and Olympic gold medallist.

We play a lot of Nintendo games, a lot of Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, a few different card games, really just stuff so we can stay loose and get your mind off of swimming before going into the meet with full focus.

I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

I know the people expect the best - good. The people expect we'll play fantastic football and win games - good. I can't control that. I accept that, and I just focus on my players in the games.

I am Olympic champion for life, and I have learned to enjoy what that means.

I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

Strengths, I believe deep down that I am a football player, just have to do whatever it takes to win games, whatever it takes to fulfill my role on the offense and help my team win games.

You can not be in top five in Olympic after just one year's preparation.

We're not coming back unless it's to become Olympic champions again.

I'm not U.S.A. Olympic image. I didn't go to college. I came from a different route.

I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

This is an Olympic-level type of sport and it needs to be cleaned up.

The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.

Winning a title in Olympic year is never easy.

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

If I play my home games in Coors Field, I'm probably not going to be doing a whole lot of bunting. If I play my home games in Petco Park or Dodger Stadium, it's probably going to be a more valuable tool.

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

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

My wife and I have Olympic sex. Once every four years.

I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

We don't sell wins or losses. The one thing you can't control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have.

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

Walking in high heels should be made an Olympic sport.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

That the Dream Team played against each other every day. The greatest games ever were the practice games they played. Everybody was talking smack. It wasn't Michael the only one talking. Magic Johnson was really good, too.

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is eternal. And the game is always the same, if you never change the rules.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.