Top 1200 Training For The Olympics Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

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

For me, I exercise every morning. I exercise every day. I work out about an hour and 20 minutes, which is aerobics and resistance training. I work on agility and balance. I work on the things that are going to help my condition. I do agility training. I walk on a treadmill. I use an elliptical. I use weights.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The problem I used to have is that I would eat in the morning, get busy training, and then maybe I'd have a shake or two throughout the day, but I wouldn't really eat anything. Then, at night, I would just kind of eat a larger meal or two, but by my second training session, I was usually kind of beat up or worn down.

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

Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed...He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Also by training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be able to beat ten men with your spirit. When you have reached this point, will it not mean that you are invincible?

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

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.

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

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

For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I have done in the past. In the second movie [John Wick 2], it really went on into another level. I've done the three gun training, where you worked with the pistol, rifle and shotgun. So that all is in the film.

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.