Top 1200 Olympic Games Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.

I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson!

I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

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

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

I'd like to do some modelling. But I will go on with pentathlon until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us a continuation of our training, we will compete in only this World cup. We don't want to travel too much before the Olympic Games and we want to focus on the Games.

The Olympic Games is one of those moments that you remember forever, from the moment that you step foot in the country that you're competing in to the Closing Ceremony.

We knew James Harden was good. You don't get named to All-Star games and win Olympic gold medals when you play like Darko Milicic.

In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.

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

The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

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

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.

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

Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.

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

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

Whether at the Olympic Games or during a Davis Cup tie I am extremely proud and honored to represent my country.

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

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

First and foremost, my involvement within the Olympic pursuit and Games were obviously surrounded by only putting the absolute best nutrients into my body.

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

Rio is going to be my fifth Olympic games - it's been a long journey but a rewarding one, I would say.

It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.

You learn a lot from your first Olympic Games experience. Everyone thinks they're prepared, but you never are.

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

Obviously, the skaters in generations before us didn't have the opportunity to win multiple medals at an Olympic Games. We recognize that.

I lost in the amateurs, losing a controversial fight that stopped me going to an Olympic Games - and it's not a nice feeling.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

There's something about an Olympic Games and representing Canada and being part of that greater team, so when we're 70, we'll be wanting to be Olympians still. That stays with you, I think.

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

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

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

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

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

I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.

What I find about Olympic games is there's so many fantastic stories, and the celebration of sport, and to be involved in that is the honor of our lifetime.

Sports authority should hire coaches only on contract basis in athletics and also in other games. The coaches should be told to produce medals in upcoming Olympic Games. Only then will they work day and night and push sportsmen and women to work harder.

The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.

It would be pretty special if I could win two Olympic gold medals, one at the Summer Games and one from the Winters, so I'm going to give it a real go.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

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

It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.

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

If I do consider fighting, it won't be until after the Olympic games in 2020, and then from there I'll reevaluate, see if it's something that would be a realistic option for me.