Quotes About Olympics

We Filipino can compete here at the Olympics. We can do it.

The best of the best are in the Olympics, all of the athletes work hard to get there.

The Asian Championships are like the Olympics because the top 6 or top 8 are already here.

I informed the team three years before the Olympics that I was retiring from indoor. It's not as if I left six months before the Olympics and left them with a gaping hole to fill. I retired in July of '89. The Olympics were July of '92.

Our seasons aren't like most sports, where the climax comes at the end. With us, the Olympics are much more important than anything else.

I got to be calm, but I mean, it's the Olympics. Anybody wants to go out and do their best, so it's definitely a different kind of pressure.

The Olympics are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I've worked so hard to get this far.

It felt like I blinked and the Olympics were over.

If the cards just so happen to be drawn that I get called up to the big leagues and become ineligible to go to the Olympics, then so be it.

As a child, I always had a dream to make it to the Olympics.

I love the fact I am a Cuban American man who represented the United States in the Olympics. I was proud to wear the red-white-and-blue.

When God gave me the chance to compete in the Rio Olympics, I thought that He gave me the chance and I needed to give it my all.

I was happy to complete 118kg. When I lifted it, I knew my place in the Olympics was secured.

The Olympics should be something so special, but I feel like it was definitely miserable at times.

Your goal is to win a medal at the Olympics. The players who go into their second Olympics like me, know the agony of missing out on a medal.

You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience.

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

Every Olympics, when I was growing up and playing basketball, my parents and I made it a point to sit down and watch the U.S.A. compete. To join that team later, and play and practice one-on-one with David Robinson, Larry Bird, Chris Mullens and all these guys I looked up to, was a dream come true.

I want to get back on the international stage. I want to bring in Olympic champions to southwestern Ontario and I want it to be done the right way.

I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it's such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world's watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.

Walking in the opening ceremony and just being part of the Olympics is so special and it's something to cherish forever.

He had since forever been working on a book called Uncanny Blossom. When Leon had told him, Billy had said, "I had no idea you were entering the Shit Title Olympics." "If you didn't swim in your sump of ignorance you'd know that title's designed to fuck with the French. Neither word's translatable into their ridiculous language.

Citius, Altius, Fortius

She won the four-horse chariot race in 396 BC and again in 392 BC in what we call the ancient Olympic Games.