Olympics Quotes
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The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.
Amy Argetsinger
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The biggest danger to the movement is that it is getting too big in sheer weight of numbers. Other sports will become more popular in terms of numbers, and everyone will want to be involved in the Olympics.
Princess Anne
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Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.
Edward Joseph Schwartz
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When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.
Richard Pryor
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The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.
Sergei Bubka
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So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory of it. It still is in the cultural memory and identity of these cities as much as it is in the physical and architectural memory. It's where these two things overlap, I think, that we're trying to explore with the photos.
Gary Hustwit
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We are not at all considering cancelling the Olympics.
Toshiro Muto
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I didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics.
Misty May-Treanor
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I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.
Erick Barrondo
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At my first Olympics, I didn't have a contract, and I wasn't making any money. After my first Olympics, I was working at 24 Hour Fitness at the front desk. I would go to practice in the morning, run home, shower, grab some food and then go straight to work. I didn't get off of work until 10 or 11 o'clock at night.
Michelle Carter
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
Seth Godin
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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