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I swam my brains out. -- Mark Spitz
I can't remember the last day I didn't train. -- Michael Phelps
Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination. -- Michael Phelps
At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one. -- Shannon Miller
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions. -- Eamonn Coghlan
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights. -- Anthony Lane
Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance. -- Eddie Izzard
Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.' -- Mark Steel
Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount. -- Harry Burns
I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games. -- Marion Jones
There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition. -- Mary Lou Retton
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities. -- Daley Thompson
The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes. -- Danny Boyle
The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage. -- Stella Young
I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games. -- Brad Alan Lewis

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