Olympics Quotes

• You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Wind
  • Over
  • Olympics

• The inclusion of slopestyle in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.

  

  Nicholas Charles Goepper
  • Air
  • Needs
  • Breaths

• I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Satisfied
  • Olympics

• I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

  

  Will McDonough
  • World
  • Fighting
  • Events

• My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • World
  • Kids
  • America

• One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Inspiration
  • Performance
  • Enthusiasm

• I think that these were the best competitions, higher than Olympics.

  

  Alexey Leonov
  • Best
  • Olympics
  • Competitions

• 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
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Memories

• We are not at all considering cancelling the Olympics.

  

  Toshiro Muto
  • Olympics
  • Considering
  • Cancelled

• If the Olympics come around, and I'm in shape, then I'll compete. But I won't be representing the United States; I'll be representing myself.

  

  Steve Prefontaine
  • Olympics
  • Compete
  • Representing

• 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
  • People
  • Week
  • Heard

• 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
  • Sports
  • Movement
  • Olympics

• The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.

  

  Sergei Bubka
  • Competition
  • Olympics

• I think I feel more relieved because we have already made a historical breakthrough for the Chinese men's aerials. As you know, we had never got into the finals at previous Olympics.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Olympics
  • Breakthrough
  • Aerials

• 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
  • Focus
  • Sports
  • Winning

• Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

  

  Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • Principles
  • Example
  • Olympics

• Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.

  

  Edward Joseph Schwartz
  • Olympics
  • Equals
  • First Class

• As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

  

  Rick Larsen
  • Working
  • Games
  • Benefits

• I won the Olympics. This is a dream, dude.

  

  Red Gerard
  • Dream
  • Olympics
  • Dude

• I made history here by landing the first triple axel for a U.S. lady, third at the Olympics, and that's a big deal.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • History
  • Olympics
  • Big Deal

• Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • Example
  • Moved
  • Olympics

• If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Enemy
  • Obsession
  • Dreaming

• The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

  

  George Gregan
  • Want
  • Olympics
  • Medal

• I didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics.

  

  Misty May-Treanor
  • Think
  • Another
  • Olympics

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