Top 1200 Winter Olympics Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on October 22, 2024.
My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.
Last night on the show I had Olympics fever. Unfortunately, it's getting worse. That's not good. I have to call my doctor if my torch burns for more than four hours.
In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.
Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I'd be lucky to get a couple of points.
I have always said the Olympics was a great grounding for me, to have that pressure on top of me, the whole nation watching you in my own country.
You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scraping the barrel, looking down the back of the settee for pound coins to buy a pint of milk.
You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.
The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to Sochi... I want to start anew, not as an Olympic medalist but just as yet another figure skater.
The Olympics is a cool opportunity to represent our country, which is amazing. But I have another community I am competing for, and that is the LGBT community.
The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.
I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
Basically, I like anything with guts - Lead Belly, Bill Big Broonzy, Johnny Winter, the Stones.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.
What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.
(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record)
I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
Before going to the L.A. Olympics, I had participated in only two competitions in 400m hurdles. Yet I came close to a medal. So if your mind is strong, you can achieve anything.
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
I don't know if any of us imagined we would ever be up here getting ready to skate in the Olympics. But we've all been working for this from a young age, even before it was possible.
The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
Just going to the Olympics would be a dream come true. I could finish last, and it would still be an amazing experience.
An American judo fighter was expelled from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Officials became suspicious when he kept stopping the match and saying, 'What are we fighting for, man?'
Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man - Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of track and field events at the Olympics and that says it all.
Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.
It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.
You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching
No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.
Limiting Covid's impact requires us to think differently about confronting respiratory pathogens in the winter.
I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.
Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.
After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals.
If you were watching the Olympics, you absolutely saw a 'Voice' ad. You could not escape that 'The Voice' was on, so it was really well done by Seven.
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.
I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!
I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!
Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it's the Olympics. I'm blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.
I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y'know, that's alright for me.
Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse traction on snow and ice and prevent it from slipping.
I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.
Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
The toughest part of my career was at the 2011 World Cup and 2012 Olympics and wanting so much to play and physically contribute - but having to understand and realize that it's just not my time.
The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still.
