Top 1200 Olympic Games Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

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

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

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

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

We're growing into an entertainment medium as opposed to 'We make games. We make Mario jump.' We no longer have to focus so hard on the technical hurdles and can ask, as a player, why am I doing this? Why am I making these choices? Games that don't have that strong foundation stumble.

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

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

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

When I got to Activision, it was like a carnival. They had a recycling container filled with cans and a sign over it that said 'Activision Takeover Defense Fund.' Activision was making games based on passion and gut instinct. We needed to develop games based on P&L statements and what was going to sell.

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

I really like arcade games and like the '80s and early '90s kind of games, just because there's a real kind of naivete to them, but there's like a real inventiveness to it as well.

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

In tournaments, players typically raise when they enter the pot. In cash games, though, players are more likely to limp in before the flop. That's because cash games are usually deeper-stacked, meaning that players will have a higher ratio of chips in relation to the blinds than they would in a tournament.

Kuala Lumpur was my first ever multi-sports games. I didn't do very well but the experience and enjoyment I had of those games really made me realize how much work I had to do and inspired me to work harder for the Sydney Olympics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

I really love doing indie projects, I think the characters that are available in indie games especially, like a lot of the indie games I've done, have been really rich interesting characters for someone of my vocal range.

That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.

Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We practice, we work out, we go to camp, we go to OTAs to win games. So all that work goes in and you want to win games.

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

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

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

Experience is the best teacher. I've been through a lot - going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It's a rollercoaster ride and I'm just happy I'm a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.

I used to play videogames, but I don't have too much time anymore. I used to have 3DO, but I could never find any games, really. I used to play it all the time. Games like 'Road Rash.'

People are texting and smash into the car in front of them - I think there is some humor in that. And the virtual games. People are playing these virtual games, but they're real - I mean, the people are really playing, but it's not a game.

I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a game can teach. Whatever the genre, I think a successful narrative allows us to participate, to try on new roles and points of view. At their best, novels and games serve as vehicles for discovery.

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

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

I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.

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

As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games.

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

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

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

We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and routes of production that may be more tailored to them than the status quo, because the public at large seems to still think that the only games writing that exists are reviews and news.

Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point.

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

We believe that we can use interactivity to create meaningful games. Games with emotions and virtual actors telling you something. Resonating with you as a human being, giving you food for thought. We don't need to deliver messages or whatever, just need to create a moment in time that will leave an imprint in your mind.

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

I'm an only child and grew up in a bad neighborhood. My parents weren't well-off, but they would save up to get me video games. Games were something I did because I couldn't really go outside where bad things were going on.