Olympic Quotes

I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.

Elana Meyers
- College
- Player
- Coach
I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Amy Poehler
- Up
- Time
- Stuff

Personally, just being able to compete in an Olympics, being part of an Opening Ceremony wearing a green jacket with the rest of the Australian Olympic team, would be a more than a dream come true.

Henry Speight
- Dream
- Compete
- Olympic
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 Kiss
- Suicide
- Shape
- Olympic
One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

Brad Alan Lewis
- Training
- Moves
- Motions
No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

Miranda Hart
- Gold
- Likes
- Parallel
Winning that team-pursuit Olympic gold medal was unbelievable.

Geraint Thomas
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides.

Ed Ayres
- Greek
- Ironic
- Olympic