Olympic Games Quotes - Page 4

• The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Games

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• There's going to be a real ding dong when the bell goes.

  David Coleman

  Real, Bells

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• The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Color, White, Flags

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• My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

  Jose Mourinho

  Family, Games, Cities

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• Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.

  Ron Pickering

  Running, Giving, Watches

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• The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.

  Trevor Bailey

  Circles, Squares, Long

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• Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

  Murray Walker

  Numbers, Seconds, Rounds

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• If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

  Kurt Angle

  Country, Hero, Wwe

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• Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Leadership, Sports, New York

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• I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

  Marlon Starling

  Funny, Fighting, Boxing

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• And for those of you who watched the last programme, I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's.

  David Coleman

  Lasts, Turns, Doughnut

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• Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.

  David Coleman

  Capable

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• There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

  Shannon Miller

  Years, Games, Events

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• Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Order, Games

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• To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Determination, Real, Team

  "'Blade runner' Pistorius handed dream double Olympic ticket", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2012.

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• A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Father, Winning

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• Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.

  Richard Attias

  Sports, Games, Bridges

  "The Olympics and the Spirit of Sport" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

  Bonnie Blair

  Short Love, Games, Long

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• I feel it's right for me to wear a Canadian flag baseball hat. Regardless of the fact that my wife is Canadian and I would support her throughout, the spirit of the Olympic Games is to have all these countries together to push each other.

  Ashton Eaton

  Baseball, Country, Wife

  Source: wwd.com

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• The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

  Tina Maze

  Sports, Athlete, Games

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• My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

  Sally Pearson

  Winning, Years, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Jobs, Winning, Bronze Medal

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• I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

  Stuart Pearce

  Soccer, Football, Tunnels

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• I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

  Duncan Armstrong

  Sports, Dream, Wall

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• The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Dream, Athlete

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