Quotes About Olympics

Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.

If I could have played in the qualifying rounds for the Beijing Olympics, the result could have changed. India would have booked the Olympics berth.

For Indian players, qualifying for the Olympics is a feat in itself.

I think it's a great accomplishment. Qualifying for the Olympics once is already hard enough now I'm about to compete in my fourth, especially now that we are in the middle of the pandemic.

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It's why the Greeks invented the Olympics.

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.

My favorite part of the Olympics was the flag raising and seeing my family there.

In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold.

If I won gold in 2016, I think it would change my life.

After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

I want to play for my country and win a gold medal.

It would be nice to win a gold medal and then sit back and watch Mark win one, too.

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

I was born in the U.S., and that's who I rep. Although when the winter Olympics come around, I'm pretty partial to Norway's success and what they do.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.

Were it my choice, I would not vote for Russia to hold the Winter Olympics or the Summer Olympics. But it's not my choice.

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In those days, the winter and summer games were held in different cities but in the same year, so there was more intermingling of winter and summer athletes at social functions.

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 wore No. 24 at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada - one bib on the back and one on the front - and those are like my medals.