Quotes About Olympics

You realize he's claiming to have been in the Olympics, she sent. But a leprechaun stole his medal.

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.

I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson!

Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.'

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And right before I hopped up there, I said, 'I got this.'

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.

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.

Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.

I made the team for the 2008 Olympics and you're playing the U.S.A. in the quarter-finals and it's like, this is awesome, this is a great feeling. We lose the game. And as a young kid like you don't understand really what that means, you just got your backside handed to you by all-time greats.

You get these young kids who are training their whole life to go to the Olympics. To go there and not fight someone else like them but fight someone who has might won an Olympics before, been a world champion, and is just coming back to fight some kids, I think is insane.

I travelled the world because of the way people saw me at the Olympics.

Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.

I was asked to perform at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. But I was up a tree in Borneo filming a documentary about Alfred Russel Wallace! So it couldn't be done.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

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.

In 2007, I dreamed of Olympic gold but got outpointed in the Olympic trials.

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

At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to lose. You have the last four years of your life to lose.

I'm just maintaining the same mindset that I had going into the 2012 Olympics and Olympic trials, which is just, whatever happens, happens.

The first time I ever wore a shoe was in 1955 during the trials for the Melbourne Olympics.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

There were lots of ominous sports metaphors in the fragmentary intercept reports. The score was going to be 200 to nothing. The Olympics were coming.18