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  • For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth. -- Mary Lou Retton
  • We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics. -- George Pataki
  • There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. -- Chris Brasher
  • Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. -- Jesse Owens
  • I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over. -- Hakeem Olajuwon
  • The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. -- Dawn Fraser
  • There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition. -- Mary Lou Retton
  • Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now. -- Charles Barkley
  • I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment. -- Clara Hughes
  • The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal. -- Mitch Gaylord
  • An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics. -- Jeff Fenech
  • My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold. -- Cammi Granato
  • I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth. -- Johnny Weir
  • I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die. -- Noureddine Morceli
  • You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally. -- Paul Stanley
  • When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence. -- Scott Hamilton
  • After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful. -- Brandi Chastain
  • I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself. -- Jesse Owens
  • Rio would be my last Olympics. -- Usain Bolt
  • Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment. -- Penn Jillette
  • I know there's life after the Olympics. -- Eric Shanteau
  • I have always loved the Summer Olympics. -- Katharine McPhee
  • Olympics for me is love, peace, united. -- Jackie Chan
  • I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956 -- Bruce Dern
  • I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics. -- Shaun White
  • The Olympics: not one of my better memories. -- Debi Thomas
  • Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued. -- Eric Heiden
  • I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics. -- Li Ka-shing
  • The Olympics must be my curse or something. -- Blanka Vlasic
  • It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible. -- Ted Ligety
  • Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics. -- Bill Toomey
  • Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics. -- Michael Jackson
  • Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts. -- Spencer Kayden
  • The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course. -- Tara Lipinski
  • Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner. -- Don Kardong
  • Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live? -- Margaret Carlson
  • Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics. -- Bob Cousy
  • I will remember all the days at the Olympics. -- Bonnie Blair
  • He's been an inspiration for me since the Olympics 1996. -- Wladimir Klitschko
  • The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about. -- Bela Karolyi
  • I will try to win the Olympics gold in London. -- Ryoko Tani
  • My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics. -- Nancy Kerrigan
  • I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC. -- Jim Lampley
  • I think the Olympics could help us reach more people. -- Graeme Murphy
  • The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams. -- Kyle Shewfelt
  • It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics. -- David Rudisha
  • Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. -- Ai Weiwei
  • My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000. -- Cathy Freeman
  • I bowled a 129. It's like- It was like the Special Olympics. -- Barack Obama
  • Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. -- Chris Cleave
  • Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics. -- Mary Lou Retton
  • Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
  • There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics. -- Bryan Volpenhein
  • The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event. -- Yuna
  • The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event. -- Yuna
  • Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts. -- Pierre de Coubertin
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  • The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for. -- Johnny Weir
  • Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed. -- Jackie Chan
  • Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. -- Zara Phillips
  • Sorry to disappoint you but I don't even watch the Olympics no more. -- Roy Jones Jr.
  • I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television. -- Shania Twain
  • I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics รข?? I just got bronze. -- Tim Vine
  • Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved. -- Michael Chang
  • I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me. -- Blanka Vlasic
  • I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old. -- Michelle Kwan
  • You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over. -- Lindsey Vonn
  • It was a dream come true for me to be at the Olympics. -- Alicia Sacramone
  • Against Steve Johnson at the Olympics I was down a couple of times. -- Andy Murray
  • If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be. -- Ryan Lochte
  • I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics. -- Yahoo Serious
  • The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia. -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate. -- George Pataki
  • My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will. -- Mark Spitz
  • I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this. -- Yohan Blake
  • My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will -- Mark Spitz
  • Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics. -- Scott Walker
  • My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
  • I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games. -- Marion Jones
  • People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics, -- Jason Lezak
  • For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world. -- Andy Murray
  • The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby. -- Jean Drapeau
  • Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes. -- Mark Twain
  • I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something. -- Chelsea Handler
  • The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver. -- Cindy Klassen
  • People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did. -- Mikaela Shiffrin
  • Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment. -- McKayla Maroney
  • HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test. -- Roger Goodell
  • I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics. -- Aly Raisman
  • Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything. -- Tonya Harding
  • (American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out. -- Mark Spitz
  • Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals. -- Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
  • The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics. -- Boris Johnson
  • At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water. -- Evan Sayet
  • If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship. -- Dan Gable
  • The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen. -- Sergei Bubka
  • The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible. -- Jencarlos Canela
  • Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history. -- Stella Young
  • I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always. -- Kim Yuna
  • Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five -- Sugar Ray Leonard
  • If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race. -- Kimberley Locke
  • It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go. -- Michael Phelps
  • I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen? -- Ryan Lochte
  • The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it's not the biggest thing in the world. -- Shaun White
  • If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics. -- Dick Ebersol
  • In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event -- Peggy Fleming
  • I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance. -- Lisa Bonet
  • In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics. -- Gary Hustwit
  • McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
  • I want to carry in my heart forever the key word of the Olympics - 'passion.' -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. -- Shawn Johnson
  • Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out. -- Gary Hustwit
  • Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it! -- Joe Calzaghe
  • The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym. -- Lindsey Vonn
  • In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event. -- Peggy Fleming
  • The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best. -- Joe Sakic
  • It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. -- Christa McAuliffe
  • (Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record) I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m. -- Noureddine Morceli
  • The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. -- Ma Jian
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