Quotes About Olympics

In just one day at the 1904 Olympics, American gymnast George Eyser won six medals, including three golds. That was amazing in itself. But that's not even the amazing part of the story. The most amazing part was that Eyser only had one leg! His left one had to be amputated after it was run over by a train.

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.

I come from a village where traditionally girls don't go out and play sport so I struggled a lot to come this far and to get to this position where I am at the Olympics.

During the time of Olympics I felt very lonely. Nobody was there at my side, to guide me or attend to my needs. In the Olympic village I had to travel alone up to the mess and competition ground as well as to the practice ground.

I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y'know, that's alright for me.

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for.

It was a dream come true for me to be at the Olympics.

I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

One particularly successful swimmer was Johnny Weismuller, an American (with Austro-Hungarian ancestry) who won five gold medals over the course of the 1924 and 1928 games. When his sporting career came to an end, he went into acting and starred as Tarzan in twelve films. In 1958 Weismuller was playing a round of golf on the island of Cuba when a small band of rebels attempted to kidnap him. He scared them off by loudly making the Tarzan yell.

Josy Barthel came first in the 1500m at the 1952 Olympic Games. This was a real triumph, as being from the tiny country of Luxembourg, no-one had expected him to have a chance - especially the band, who hadn't brought the music for Luxembourg's national anthem with them. They were forced to improvise, causing Barthel to put his head in his hands and weep.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?"

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.