Quotes About Olympic

I don't really have a specific Olympic crush. There were a couple of guys during the Olympics in Sochi that were super fit. And during the summer games, any of the sports where people have their shirts off if they're diving or swimming or whatever, it's like eye candy.

I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.

Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.

Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. I suppose I should know who Pelops was? He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of that. Hazel sniffed. How romantic. 'Nice wife you have, Prince Pelops.' 'Thanks. I won her in a chariot race.

This is the Propylon. He waved toward a stone path lined with crumbling columns. One of the main gates into the Olympic valley. Rubble! said Leo And over there - Frank pointed to a square foundation that looked like the patio for a Mexican restaurant - is the Temple of Hera, one of the oldest structures here. More rubble! Leo said. And that round bandstand-looking thing - that's the Philipeon, dedicated to Philip of Macedonia. Even more rubble! First rate rubble!

The Sunday edition of the Detroit News on September 15 ran a special section about "Olympic City," making the case for how and why Detroit would be selected. The next day Cavanagh was at the White House where, at four in the afternoon, President Kennedy signed Joint Resolution 72, expressing Congress's full support for Detroit.

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

Tú que eres sublime. Olímpica. Tú que eres una obra maestra, (…). Eres un arco demasiado grande para tan lamentables arqueros

I like that kind of weather. Constant drizzle. At the Olympic trials in 2012, my mom was, like, 'It's pouring rain out there, Mary. You shouldn't even notice it. You're Irish.'

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

Due to my love for 'Harry Potter,' I have to say my celebrity crush is Emma Watson and my Olympic crush is Gracie Gold.

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.

I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

You can not be in top five in Olympic after just one year's preparation.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

London was the hardest Olympic Games, and before it, I was really just hoping to win a medal, even if it was not the gold medal. At the same time, I have my next target. I am not settling for three golds in a row. I now want to try for a fourth.

Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.

In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.