Best Olympics Quotes

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I’d take gold. I’m Cuban. We love to sleep.

I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you’re able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

The ability to manage large assets well – it’s like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it’s what you aspire to.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

I’ve decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Every Olympics is something special. If you’re fortunate enough to play for your country – there’s just so much energy. It’s truly amazing.

I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

Rio would be my last Olympics.

Unfortunately, I don’t usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn’t really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

I’m going to keep living my life the way I’ve been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn’t meant to be.

It’s not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it’s not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

Winning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts.

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.

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

I have achieved a lot and I’m grateful for that – I’m just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It’s once every four years – everyone wants it and very few people get it.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

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.

I’ve been to three Olympics and I don’t feel I’ve ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] – no dizziness.

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think ‘I wonder what I could have done if I was there?