Quotes About Olympic

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.

My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games and being appointed the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. So I've just decided I'll go with my flow and be very prepared.

I have a lot of very happy memories of the Olympic Games, and the final against Nigeria and the goal mean an awful lot to me.

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.

I will always be grateful for having that opportunity to be part of a home Olympic games. It is a memory I will cherish forever.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.

What I find about Olympic games is there's so many fantastic stories, and the celebration of sport, and to be involved in that is the honor of our lifetime.

I can't say I have a lucky charm, but I do wear a 3/4-zip U.S.A. jacket I wear to every event. I got it from Nike, and it was from the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games is one of those moments that you remember forever, from the moment that you step foot in the country that you're competing in to the Closing Ceremony.

I don't think revenge is enough to fuel the fire it takes to go to an Olympic Games and be successful.

I've always wanted to be an athlete, I loved sport and PE in school and always watched the Olympic Games on TV.

All of the major events are fun. Obviously the Olympic Games is top.

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

I know everyone has Olympic dreams, but if you really think about it, you just don't want to go to the Olympics. You want to be a gold medalist at the Olympic Games.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment—its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games' spirit of inclusion and harmony.

Collins wrote a dramatic version of The Woman in White that made its London debut at the Olympic Theatre on October 9, 1871. It ran on Broadway for three weeks in 1873.

The Olympic games held in Berlin in August 1936 afforded the Nazis a golden opportunity to impress the world with the achievements of the Third Reich, and they made the most of it.

Heinrich Harrer: That's the Olympic gold medal. Not important. Pema Lhaki: This is another great difference between our civilization and yours. You admire the man who pushes his way to the top in any walk of life, while we admire the man who abandons his ego.