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You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist! -- Kurt Angle
I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal. -- Keeth Smart
He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins -- Des Lynam
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. -- Pierre de Coubertin
I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open. -- Shani Davis
Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero. -- Kerri Walsh
I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. -- Shawn Johnson
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar -- Mark Rippetoe
I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team. -- Amnat Ruenroeng
I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team. -- Lindsey Vonn
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else. -- Rebecca Lobo
I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist. -- Gagan Narang
The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means. -- Andy Rooney
The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming. -- Natalie Coughlin
My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding. -- Bill Toomey
Walking in high heels should be made an Olympic sport. -- Mimi Pond
Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family. -- Bill Toomey
The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family. -- Bill Toomey
I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have. -- Natalie Coughlin
Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team. -- Kevin Durant
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one. -- Esther Williams
I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again. -- Bryan Clay
My wife and I have Olympic sex. Once every four years. -- Rodney Dangerfield
If you're a cannibal, an Olympic sprinter would be considered fast food. -- Jarod Kintz
All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp. -- Johnny Weissmuller
My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year. -- Sasha Cohen
I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport. -- Chris Carmack
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. -- Avery Brundage
The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time -- David Coleman
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. -- Pierre de Coubertin
I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up. -- Grace Gummer
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty. -- Pierre de Coubertin
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. -- Pierre de Coubertin
I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff. -- Amy Poehler
I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team. -- Michael Phelps
Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing. -- Apolo Ohno
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport. -- Nadia Comaneci
Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. -- Kurt Angle
I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia. -- Tommy Lasorda
Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball. -- Wright Thompson
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. -- Bill Toomey
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. -- Pierre de Coubertin
You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. -- Seth Godin
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. -- Fidel Castro
No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner. -- Bruce McCulloch
Holmstrom has broken an Olympic record by being cross checked 46 times in one game! -- Harry Neale
An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation. -- Apolo Ohno
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition. -- Nadia Comaneci
I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism. -- Tom Stoppard
Thank you guys for believing in my ability and supporting me in my Olympic journey. -- Simone Biles
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors. -- Nastia Liukin
It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field. -- Martin Lel
Last night I went out for Chinese. I picked up a Team USA Olympic uniform. -- Jay Leno
I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year. -- Hermann Maier
And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. -- Jaden Smith
It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes. -- Jordyn Wieber
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. -- Pierre de Coubertin
I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal. -- Paula Radcliffe
If judging people on first impressions were an Olympic sport, they'd suspect me of using steroids. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody. -- Scott Hamilton
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. -- Tina Maze
Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games. -- Gary Hustwit
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists. -- Taylor Phinney
Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games. -- Casey Eastham
If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone. -- Ken Livingstone
The Olympic Games are a national cause, and a national cause calls for a nationwide attitude. -- Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid -- Bradley Wiggins
Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement. -- Brent Musburger
Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me. -- Ashley Wagner
The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White. -- Jay Leno
Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience. -- Mary Lou Retton
If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again. -- Usain Bolt
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides -- Ed Ayres
The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate. -- Yao Ming
People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world. -- Cathy Freeman
If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright. -- Yohan Blake
We went out there as a team and believed we could win. I am an Olympic champion. -- Mark Lewis-Francis
I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games. -- Jackie Chan
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire. -- Adolf Hitler
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games. -- Shannon Miller
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. -- Scott Hamilton
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest. -- Daley Thompson
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed. -- Mary Lou Retton
To win Olympic gold it takes a lot of HARDWORK, a lot of PASSION, a lot of SACRIFICES. -- Gabby Douglas
I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself. -- Eric Shanteau
I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today. -- Tom Daley
To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one. -- Adelina Sotnikova
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors? -- Homer
I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi. -- Ban Ki-moon
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. -- Dorothy Hamill
No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs. -- Miranda Hart
The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well. -- Dayron Robles
I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games. -- Libby Trickett
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike. -- Dave Beard
Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal. -- Patrick Ewing
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents. -- Clara Hughes
Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level. -- Jose Contreras
I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything. -- Natalie du Toit
To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow. -- John Mariucci
I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything, -- Natalie du Toit
Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too. -- Johnny Carson
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium. -- Saina Nehwal
Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year. -- Tom Daley
The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it. -- Kerri Walsh
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. -- Jane D. Hull
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut. -- Bobby Fischer
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here. -- Muhammad Ali
I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness. -- Pierre de Coubertin
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. -- Avery Brundage
If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing. -- Evgeni Plushenko
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. -- Olga Korbut
I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion. -- Tara Lipinski
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' -- Michael Phelps
Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one. -- Gracie Gold
I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal. -- Venus Williams

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