Olympics Quotes - Page 18

• At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.

  Shannon Miller

  Country, Jobs, Blue

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• When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.

  Jack Canfield

  Winning, Atlanta, Hands

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• 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

  Games, Risk, Tasks

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• I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

  Vanessa Mae

  Winter, Two, Russia

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• Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Kids, Views, Delight

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• The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

  Bela Karolyi

  Gymnastics, Community, Shows

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• I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Team, Blessed, Opportunity

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• I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Spring, School

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• One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Winning, One Day

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• All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

  Fanny Blankers-Koen

  Running, People, Done

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• On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Philadelphia, America

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• If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Years, Goal

  "Shaun White On His Skateboarding Future, Hanging With Guns N’ Roses & One ‘Painful’ Miley Cyrus Song". www.accessonline.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

  Andrew Young

  Differences, Athletic, Sportsmanship

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• I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

  Johnny Weir

  Athlete, Gay, Thinking

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• I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around that I think those decisions and those laws aren't necessarily something that I agree with personally ... their laws and their views.

  Sidney Crosby

  Thinking, Views, Law

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• If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out our economy. We can't afford another Republican administration.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Years, Law

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!

  Barack Obama

  Stupid, Special, Racist

  "'It was like the Special Olympics': Obama has his own Bush moment" by Guy Adams, www.independent.co.uk. March 21, 2009.

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• My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

  Ryan Lochte

  Girlfriend, Mistake, London

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• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Jobs, Home

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Strong, Swimming

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• My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will

  Mark Spitz

  Loss, Losing, Forget

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• I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics – I just got bronze.

  Tim Vine

  Sun, Tanning, Bronze

  "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Trying, Records, May

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• Four years ago, I was thinking… no Olympics, who am I? Probably in ’04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I am and I have to be an Olympian and I have to make this team. That’s probably why I was a little bit devastated when I didn’t make it. You know, I was kinda lost. Now I realize that we’re all magnificent, regardless of what we do or whatever career path we choose, you know, that career doesn’t have to define us as a human being. There’s so much more to being human than all of this.

  Raj Bhavsar

  Team, Gymnastics, Thinking

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