Olympics Quotes - Page 17

• He's been an inspiration for me since the Olympics 1996.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Inspiration, Fighter

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• I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  Firsts, Has Beens

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• You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

  Barack Obama

  Insulting, Allies, Might

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama's failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned turning around businesses and a failing Olympics and successfully, conservatively governing a Democratic state. I am proud to endorse him and will work my hardest to ensure he is elected so we can turn around our country.

  Nikki Haley

  Country, Real, President

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• I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

  Lolo Jones

  Winning, Gold, Done

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2012

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• I think every athlete that’s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Athlete, Thinking, Inspire

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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

  Responsibility, Rocks, Organization

  "Is it time for a competitor to the Olympics?". sethgodin.typepad.com. February 19, 2014.

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• I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It was all about blind focus. I was so sure that I was doing exactly what I'd been put on this earth to do, and I would have done anything to make it onto that stage.

  Tina Fey

  Athlete, Focus, Trying

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• It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

  Richard Gere

  Views, Athletic, Chinese

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• I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.

  Ryoko Tani

  Winning, Trying, Gold

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• The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

  Susan Estrich

  Fall, Winning, Opportunity

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• The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

  Debi Thomas

  Memories, Good Memories

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• ....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.

  Joey Reiman

  Hero, Athlete, Disability

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.36, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Skiing is my favorite sport, because, that's the only sport that is actually better to watch the worst the person is at it. "That guy won a gold medal in the Olympics" "Oh yeah, that's cool, i wanna watch the fat guy" "Come on dude, you can take that hill"

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Holiday, Games, Training

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• 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

  Dream, Love You, Heart

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• If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Sponsorship, Entertaining

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• 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, Important, Different

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• Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it!

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Judging, Doe

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• I'm having a wonderful time in training. It's so funny because you go through ups and you go through downs. People have to realize that my career started on a down. I got ripped off a Gold Medal at the Olympics but it didn't stop me and it made me a better person.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Careers, People

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• The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Country, War, Reading

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• I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best.

  Jessica Ennis

  Home, Athlete, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

  Andy Murray

  Motivation, Winning, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

  Alfred Hajos

  Winning, Desire, Olympic Games

  "The Joy of Six: great Olympians" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.

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