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Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence. -- Debi Thomas
But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian. -- Debi Thomas
The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best. -- Joe Sakic
I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish. -- Bryan Clay
Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability. -- Russell Mark
Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front. -- Ivanka Trump
I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to. -- Allyson Felix
Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian -- Rick Riordan
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure. -- Lorin Maazel
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You're either an Olympian or not in swimming. -- Mark Warkentin
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. -- Emile M. Cioran
Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete. -- Michael Diamond
The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die. -- Mason Cooley
Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability. -- Russell Mark
I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments. -- Lee Trevino
I honestly feel like my job since I was 22 has been to be an Olympian. -- Kerri Walsh
No one else in this world was more off their rocker than an Olympian god." -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you. -- Hannah Kearney
Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:We are but mortals, and must sing of men." -- Theocritus
There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey. -- Danielle de Niese
I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant. -- Ronda Rousey
About the prophecy that Rachel did at the end of "The Last Olympian," Percy Jackson will participate this prophecy, along with Annabeth? Sorry for spelling errors -- Rick Riordan
You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter. -- Shaun White
There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice go for the Olympian. -- Rick Riordan
If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian. -- Allyson Felix
When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.' -- Ryan Lochte
I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney. -- Steve Nash
You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said. -- Rick Riordan
When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work. -- Lakshmi Mittal
I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality. -- Brittany Bowe
I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream. -- Danielle de Niese
I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian. -- Stephan James
I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis. -- Michael Light
To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts. -- Pierre-Paul Grasse
People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in. -- Amanda Beard
Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy, intractable burden of bodies, the sheer tedium of our confinement in the flesh? -- Paul Russell
NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient. -- Ambrose Bierce
We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself. -- David Agus
I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. -- Derek Jacobi
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience. -- Susan Orlean
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books. -- Jimmy Reid
When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality. -- Brittany Bowe
My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?' -- Kourtney Kardashian
Baclli swarm within my portalsSuch as ne'r conceived by mortals,But, bred by scientists,Wise and hoary in some Olympian laboratory.Bacteria as large as miceWith feet of fire and heads of ice,Who never interrupt for slumberTheir stomping, elephantine rumba.( From the poem--- " The Common Cold " )" -- Ogden Nash
I'm a four-time national champion and a two-time Olympian, and no one can take that away from me. So whatever people have to say about me, that's their own problem because I'm freaking proud of what I've done, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it. -- Jeremy Abbott
Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves? -- Apolo Ohno
You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together. -- Rick Riordan
Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians. -- Bill Toomey
The Great Walk to Beijing was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer thrivers, including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians. -- Olivia Newton-John
I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome. -- Rick Riordan
[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian. -- Elana Meyers
The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. -- Ajay Naidu
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world. -- David Rudisha
Sometimes I think that our laboratories are but little earthworks which men build about themselves, and whose puny tops too often conceal from view the Olympian heights; that we who work in these laboratories are but skilled artisans compared with the man who is able to observe and to draw accurate deductions from the world about him. -- Gilbert Newton Lewis
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth. -- H. L. Mencken

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