Quotes About Olympics

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.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.

I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

It always has been a goal of mine to compete in the Olympics. Right after I graduated from college, I moved out to Salt Lake City with my mind focused on making the 2014 team.

I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did.

In 2010, I was 17 or 18 and thought, 'Yeah, the Olympics, that might happen.'

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.

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

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.

I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fulfill my dreams coming to the 2012 London Olympics.

My father represented India at the Olympics, and I also want to do that.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.