Top 1200 Olympic Games Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

I think we assume a lot about both genders. But in particular I think we assume that only boys play games and that boys are only interested in playing games that reflect their narratives and their interests.

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

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

The key here are two little words: the word 'or' and the word 'and'. Nintendo is not an or company, with games devoted to just this group or that group. We're an and company, with games for this group and that group and for groups that don't even call themselves gamers yet.

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

I used to think about video games, "This is clearly an amazing, new narrative medium, and it's going to be mind-blowing when people get to grips with what's possible within this medium." It took us a century to get really good at film. Video games are at a much earlier stage.

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

I had a dream as a young boy to be Olympic champion in boxing, and that's what I focused on with my father - making it a reality.

It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.

We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and fifteen or an hour and thirty minutes to drive. So now I'm sitting in a car for almost an hour and a half and I'm very tense. I'm worried about the traffic. So I started smoking a cigar going to the games.

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

I'm a two-time Olympian, but ever since I was a little girl, the Olympic dream has influenced me.

There will be no one like me in the history of Olympics, someone who competed in an Olympic final with one international meet.

I think it was just me who thought I could be Olympic champion. I've been telling myself that, and I did that.

I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.

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

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

We do not focus test our games and never had. People ask why we don't, and I say, 'I have so many opinions in this studio, I don't need anymore!' We really debate everything - and it's a good debate. That's why the games turn out well: it's not me - it's not this guy - it's the collective. Together, we figure out what we want.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

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

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.

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

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

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

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

I'm happy to see that more girls are going into weightlifting and aiming to become Olympic medalists as well.

I used to play video games and all that, but I don't really play video games that much.

I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

Role-playing games have been a huge part of my life and a huge part of my training as a performer - learning social skills, meeting friends, and being a generally competent person - so I owe a lot to role-playing games.

Toronto will be the best Pan American Games ever. As PASO’s President, I have said several times that I want to end my leading period with a legacy of the best Games ever; and I am sure we will do it in Toronto.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

At the Usha School of Athletics, our sole aim is to earn Olympic gold medals for India.

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.

It's humbling how my peers view me as not only one of the best Olympic power and weightlifters, but as an athlete.

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

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

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

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

I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.

To do a PB in an Olympic final - I'm pretty happy - you can't ask for more, that's the fastest time I have ever swum.

I remember seeing a story on Olympic swimmer, Ryan Lochte doing strongman workouts. That was awesome.

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

In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

I love the mouse, I love designing games for a mouse-based system. I think it's still a way of playing games which, you know, everyone's really excited about the Wii and all that, but for me, the mouse is for the PC an awful lot what that pointing device did for the Wii.

Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.

The fact that we're Olympic champions and we don't have any professional teams in our home country is pretty unacceptable.

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

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

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

You have to be consistent in your work, consistent in your performances, because, if not, then you might not have as many games as you would like. Less games you play, then less chances to have a clean sheet.

There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.