Top 208 Rio Quotes & Sayings

I will go to Rio to support Brazil even if I'm not in the squad.

The Rio Games, it will be a big goal.

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.

I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics.

I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

A gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics is what I'm looking for. I have to pace my training in such a way that I'm at my best in Rio, and when I'm in form, no opponent can come in my way.

I had only been cycling for a year before I went to Rio.

Everything that I got, it's special. I mean, I had the silver medal from Rio. Also was one of my best week ever on tour, playing for my country in Rio. Davis Cup, it's also special for me and for my country.

In Rio, we took the bronze, but I thought we gave everything we had, and that's what we walked away with.

I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story.

The whole time I was in Rio, I probably cried every single night.

Rio was always going to be on the schedule for me, whether I had won in London or not. Triathlon is one of those sports where the Olympics is always the most important and the most interesting race, and I always wanted to have a crack at Rio and defend my title.

I will hold my head high in Rio and do my best for Great Britain.

I didn't enjoy Rio. My team-mates were great but some of the staff made it a really negative place.

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

Living in Rio is dangerous sometimes.

Jermaine Defoe was from my area. Rio Ferdinand used to come into my barbershop.

I am training 8-9 hours a day and will give my best shot for Rio.

I want more gold medals. I only got two in Rio so it would be nice to make it four.

I was a fan of jujitsu, so that pretty much got me started in fighting. I won a lot of local competitions when I was young and eventually won a ticket to go compete in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio, I struggled a lot in the beginning, living in the gym and not having much to eat, but eventually I joined the Nova Uniao Team and really improved my skills.

Alberto Del Rio is doing a pretty good job.

Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.

Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.

Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.

If I win the Olympics in Rio, then I'll have each title in double.

Rio de Janeiro has captured my imagination.

I'm not tired of wrestling; I love wrestling. Del Rio fans - I love my Del Rio fans.

Two English defenders were among the finest I played against: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand.

Rio would be my last Olympics.

I think I'm ready and excited for Rio in 2016.

When I participated in Rio Olympics in 2016, I failed to grab a medal. But it was a learning experience.

I feel like I fell short in Rio.

I am Alberto Del Rio, but you already knew that.

Players like Rio Ferdinand and Patrick Vieira have supported me, and I just want to say thank you.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.

I need to practice every day to be at my best for winning the third gold at the Rio Olympics.

I feel like Rio 2016 was my worst performance, and really my burnout.

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

Life has changed after Rio. Winning a silver medal was a huge moment for me. It has come with a lot of responsibilities.

I know I can and have to improve many aspects of my game. I have to play more in the low post like I did in Rio.

I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.

I don't watch my Rio races back. I'll look at my London 2012 races a lot. But not Rio.

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

Rio has been absolutely epic. I did leave my heart out there, and I wanted to do everybody proud.

In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.

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

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

I used to go to the beach everyday in Rio!

My performance at Rio gave me closure. I did my best and could not have done any more.

Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography of the imagination. In essence, we're all sex tourists. I've never been to Rio and I've never been to a psychoanalytic convention, but in a sense, Rio is symbolic of desire, some sort of ultimate ecstasy.

If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

It's brilliant to be compared with such a player as Rio Ferdinand.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.