Olympics Quotes - Page 13

• Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it, you can qualify.' But it wasn't something that I actually believed I could do. Even now, I definitely understand and know I'm going to the Olympics, but I don't think it will fully sink in until I'm actually there and experiencing it.

  Gwen Jorgensen

  Thinking, Yeah, Said

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• Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

  David Letterman

  Tanks, Rolling, Putin

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• My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Dream, Winning, Cake

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• The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Gym

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

  Lindsey Vonn

  Wind, Bigs

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• And as long as I'm passionate about the sport, I'm able to do that and I'm happy, then I would love to do another Olympics. I'm just going to see how I'm feeling.

  Allyson Felix

  Sports, Long, Feelings

  "Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I actually had nuggets and mostly Asian food when I was at the Olympics. But as soon as I got back to Jamaica, or when I was in London, I had a lot of wings. That was the first thing I asked for - "Hey, get me some wings."

  Usain Bolt

  Jamaica, Wings, Nuggets

  "Q&A with Usain Bolt: Protests, doping scandals, post-track life ... and wings". ESPN Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2016.

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• The Olympics, you have to remember, is an event onto itself; it's unlike anything else. It's a multisport event, you have people from all over the world and it has its own special charm, its own special issues. But it's distinct from anything else.

  Donald Fehr

  Issues, People, Special

  Source: espn.go.com

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• A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Logos, Timeless

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for. Maybe you should be trying to come up with something that will really become associated with a moment in time, a few weeks, that happened, period. Then you look back, think about it and connect it with that time. It may look dated later but it will be still be evocative.

  Michael Bierut

  Thinking, Design, Trying

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• It's not as easy as that... it's disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• [Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they could [invest] in a Formula One race, they don't want to do it.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Race, Want, Formulas

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on the Sochi Olympics. We were working closely with them on the Iranian nuclear deal.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Russia, Saws, Nuclear

  "Smoke Signals from The Swamp: Meet General Michael Flynn" by Dook Snyder, theberkshireedge.com. October 30, 2017.

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• The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time when she fell ill. That happened during my Freshman year, and unfortunately she never saw me compete in the Olympics. But she really wanted me to finish college, because she never finished Junior High.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Mother, College, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

  Jim Courier

  Purpose, Propaganda, Resources

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Winter, Games

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

  John Carlos

  Country, Way, Necks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Against Steve Johnson at the Olympics I was down a couple of times.

  Andy Murray

  Couple, Johnson

  Source: www.tennisplanet.me

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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

  Memories, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.salon.com

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• There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and i still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.

  Scott Eastwood

  Struggle, Naps, Doors

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2016

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• Nothing can replace the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I was so proud when I played in '98 and I was so proud when we won in 2002.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Proud

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• In fact, if you were interested in a global platform there are only three sporting events: probably the most powerful - or equally powerful [to F1] - are the World Cup and the Olympics, and then Formula One. And there it gets interesting.

  Martin Sorrell

  Powerful, Interesting, Events

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• If you run a country and want to put it on the global map you don't have so many choices. You can get the Olympics, the World Cup or a Formula One race. And the first two are only every four years - and you have them only once.

  Martin Sorrell

  Country, Running, Race

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.

  David Neeleman

  Thinking, Optimism, Feelings

  Source: skift.com

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• Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains.

  Greg Rutherford

  Winter, Mountain, France

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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