Top 1200 Special Olympics Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.

No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and grandmother how much I love them. Now that I'm a mom, it is a special day to spend with my children.

The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.

As each sun rises, it is your choice to wait for some special day to celebrate, or to celebrate that each day is special.

I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

You're special. I'm special. The whole world's special, so don't you forget it. The universe wants us All to be happy, Full of smiles and all that stuff, All that stuff That's happy and smiley. So get happy, happy, happy right now! Get happy, happy, happy right now! Get happy, happy, happy right now!

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

In Porto, you have to eat francesinha. Translated, it means 'little French girl.' It's this sandwich of bread, ham, and a lot of beef sausage or other meats. Then you put melted cheese on the top. The special thing about it is the sauce. Each house makes a special secret sauce, and it's usually a bit spicy.

I've been to three Olympics, and they're cool and everything, but I feel like people just aren't grateful for what we have and the opportunities we have.

It means a lot; I always love to represent my country, and it's an honor to be part of the Olympics and be with other athletes.

I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.

I think he's a special fighter, I'm a big Canelo fan, but I think he's a special fighter at middleweight and I think a lot of his advantages he has at that level, he'll lose when he steps up to super middleweight.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

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

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.

Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.

One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.

At the Olympics, once I got there it was more about the full experience and skating to the best of my ability.

I was born in the U.S., and that's who I rep. Although when the winter Olympics come around, I'm pretty partial to Norway's success and what they do.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

'Midnight Special' is, like 'Starman', a government chase film - in the government chase film genre - about a boy who has special powers and the government agents' quest to find him.

I made history here by landing the first triple axel for a U.S. lady, third at the Olympics, and that's a big deal.

Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.

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

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

It wasn't an easy journey to participating in the Olympics. It has taken me 14 years of training and hard work.

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

After the Olympics I was going to a lot of functions and found that if I was eating badly my energy levels dropped.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.

At the Olympics, for those eight minutes of each fight, all that attention was on me. Either the crowd is with you or against you.

Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.

When I first started boxing, I said that I'd fight in The Olympics, become world champion, and retire undefeated.

My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.

I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.

I think javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has a good chance of winning a medal at the Paris Olympics.

Olympics is a place where you can be easily distracted to a lot of things and it will seem like a magic world.

That's what the Olympics are about, is these tight games that bring out performances that make us really proud.

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

A medal in Tokyo Olympics is my target, it's the ultimate for an athlete. I am still young and my best is yet to come.

'Glamour's always special to me; they gave me one of my first U.K. covers, and I was so excited when I found out I got a cover for it, so, I always, always have a special place in my heart for 'Glamour.'

It's like a dream for me, participating in the Olympics, it's so important for my career and I hope to win the gold medal here.