Top 1200 Special Olympics Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

My ultimate dream was to get to the Olympics. I never thought I would come away with two gold medals.

I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

The thought of being the first openly gay male ever to compete in the Winter Olympics - I totally embrace that.

If you could play in the Olympics or sit on your couch and watch at home, what would you do? It was that simple. This is basketball; it's not war.

In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

The Olympics, as a little kid, it was such a big goal that I created for myself, and I was able to push through and make that happen.

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to make it to the Olympics.

Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.

For softball, we need the Olympics. For young girls dreaming of that Olympic dream, that's where it's at, and that's where it all started in '96 for our sport.

To be a superstar you have to win and you have to have something special. For me, I hope that knocking people out is my something special because I can't sell myself, per se, and become a different person on camera and a different person off camera.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.

Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function.

Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!

It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

Even if you watch the races I won - the indoor titles and the Olympics - I've never really been a superfast starter.

I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

When I put on my first Man Utd training kit, it felt enormous in a way that was really special in kind of like a childhood dream type way. Obviously, we don't have that history in the U.S., so to be able to put on a shirt like that as an American was really special.

Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

What our generation hopefully is doing is not believing in that so-called bad luck that Canada has with figure skating at the Olympics.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

Our big hope is to get to the Olympics and win the first beach volleyball gold medal - if we can make it.

The Olympics is this big global event, but when neighbours come up and wish you well, it feels more personal.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

All the roles that I have acted in were all special in a different way. But the role of Ri Jeong-hyeok had more warmth and innocence compared to the other roles that I have acted. I think it was more special in terms of expressing the role.

The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It's not in his body, in his skill set. It comes from having great talent but wanting to mold that and fit it together into being special. And being special means winning championships.

I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights.

Dance is a way of connecting and finding a moment with someone. It really is something special and unique that you don't find in any other physical activity, you know? Because it's you with another person, and you guys dive in together with these characters. So dance, to me, has been really special to create amazing bonds with people.

We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

Every Olympics, we always end up having someone on the podium that we had no idea, or we didn't expect them to be.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

I think as long as you're going out and treating everything with respect - you're not going in there acting like a helpless girl - as long as you don't go in there demanding special treatment, I think you won't receive any special treatment.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

The best boxers don't always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please God, that won't happen to me.

It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

When I plummeted into infamy in the Calgary Olympics, I never thought that a film would be made about my life.

My dear friends you are a royal generation. You were preserved to come to the earth in this time for a special purpose. Not just a few of you, but all of you. There are things for each of you to do that no one else can do as well as you.... If you will let Him, I testify that our Father in Heaven will walk with you through the journey of life and inspire you to know your special purpose here.

I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.

I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.