Top 1200 Special Olympics Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You don't want to do sevens just for the sake of going to the Olympics. its something you've got to want to do.

At the end of the day, I'm riding a little kid's bike around a track; that's what I've done for as long as I can remember. Now it's just on a bigger stage at the Olympics.

'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see.

If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure I wanted to wait for another four years.

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

I won't win a World Cup, and I won't win the Olympics, but I'm sure I can compete with the best, and that's what I want to show.

When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

I've seen the success of Mary Kom at the Olympics... We stayed in the same flat. If she can win a medal after being the mother of two, why can't I?

I love my country. That's the thing about the Olympics. You're doing it for your country.

They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot!

The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning.

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

I've played for England, played in the Olympics and made my Premier League debut.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

Whenever you put on the Canadian jersey, it's an honor and it would be a huge honor to represent us at the Olympics.

In 2012, I thought that maybe I could be an Olympic gold medalist. It just came from sitting home and being injured and watching the Olympics on the TV.

It's super cool - I have this link to Korea, and with the Olympics, I have this opportunity to represent the U.S., Korea, and my family.

For me, it would be the perfect summer to play in the Euros and then the Olympics. My desire is to play in both.

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

Playing for Australia, if they told me at 36 or 37 or whatever I'm going to be, that I can go to camp and possibly make a fifth Olympics, then why not?

There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and i still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.

Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.

And as long as I'm passionate about the sport, I'm able to do that and I'm happy, then I would love to do another Olympics. I'm just going to see how I'm feeling.

It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.

I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.

I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.

I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.

If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.

When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

I will always want to play one more match, one more Olympics.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

The Olympics, you're in front of the world, and yeah you're competing, but you want to look good. You want to have a great representation of who you are.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended.

I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a lifetime ago.

The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.

For golf, being in the Olympics is a big boost. More so for Indian golf.

That's just the mystery in the air of the Olympics. It's full of dreams, and sometimes dreams don't come true.

As a kid growing up, I was never like, 'I want to go to the Olympics,' so having to pass on 2012 because I was too young didn't bother me at all.

Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it!

I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.

I don't think there's any less on the line in the Olympics than there is any other time.

The uptake of people getting involved in cycling is partly down to the big success the team has had in the Tour de France, the Olympics and the World Championships.

France has a special position: We are Continental Europe's nuclear power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. This special role, though, only makes sense if France fills it as a member state of the European Union. France cannot play this role alone, it must be seen as a part of Europe. I have always insisted on that.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

Obviously, the competition at an Olympics, the emotions are running high, and the stakes are higher for these athletes, so it does bring an incredible, palpable excitement and emotion into the building.

What makes 'Maybach Music V' so special was, of course, I put the album out celebrating my daughter's birthday as well, and DeJ Loaf is her favorite artist. So 'Maybach Music V,' I wanted a real airy type of feel. Just a real slow vibe to it that's also going to surprise my daughter. So that's real special.

It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands cheering for you it's a great feeling and I cant wait to get the Olympics started.

Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago.