Quotes About Athletics

Sports authority should hire coaches only on contract basis in athletics and also in other games. The coaches should be told to produce medals in upcoming Olympic Games. Only then will they work day and night and push sportsmen and women to work harder.

Anything can happen. Everybody is working to be on that team and to win the Olympic Games.

The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children - children with mental retardation - can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth.

It is an honor to represent my country in the Olympics.

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

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.

The Olympics are in my blood and everybody knows how much I love my country.

Just going to the Olympics would be a dream come true. I could finish last, and it would still be an amazing experience.

I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.

To represent Iran in the Olympics feel great.

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

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics.

Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.

Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn't think of being in the Olympics some day.

You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.

I've played in four Olympics. I'm grateful for that.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

I've done things, from the Olympics to defeating two of the greatest fighters of all time.

It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.