Top 1032 Olympic Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

I just don't feel the Olympic spirit.

I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.

There was a time where I was on top of the world, an Olympic hopeful.

The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything they can to keep American viewers interested in what is going on at the hockey rink in Sochi. According to their logic, Americans should always win, no matter what. It was absolutely obvious that [Fyodor] Tyutin's goal yesterday should have been allowed. This was clear to the whole world except the American referee, American TV and those officials with American passports who rule international hockey, grossly neglecting all Olympic principles.

I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.

I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!

Any Olympic sport is great to watch.

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

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

The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

Being an Olympic athlete doesn't change who you are as a person.

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.

Everybody wants that spot: everybody wants to beat Nicola Adams. Everybody wants to be the Olympic champion; everybody wants to beat the Olympic champion. It's made me train that much harder and stay that much more focused. I guess, in a way, I've got them to thank for keeping me motivated and focused on the job I need to do.

If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?

My older sister Celia is an actress as well. She's a little bit older than me. So, in my formative years, she was always performing, and we would always go see her do things. And so, that just made me want to be... like her. Maybe if she was an Olympic swimmer, I would probably be an Olympic swimmer by now as well!

Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that's every performed. She's a leader, she's been gracious, she's somebody to cherish forever. She's a real loss to the United States Olympic Committee, to the United States of America and, I think, to the world.

I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.

Winning the Olympic gold was amazing.

I was 80-1 to win Olympic gold.

Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.

You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist!

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.

It's harder to be a dad than an Olympic champion.

As an Olympic athlete, I was at the top of my sport.

I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open.

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

Getting to the Olympic Games was my gold medal.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

I didn't really hit my stride until my Olympic year.

You can fight based on a strong mind, based on developing your muscles and reflexes, training your motor functions and going back again. Having a strong enough mind to actually put them into action. This is not actually terribly different from what an Olympic athlete does - and essentially describes the process of becoming an Olympic athlete.

The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

There's a lot of pressure being an Olympic athlete.

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.

I want the full Olympic experience.

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

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.

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

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.

I got an Olympic medal.

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

I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal.

He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins