Olympics Quotes - Page 21

• Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Running, School

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• Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Horse, London Olympics

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• Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old model from Los Angeles. Like every other model in L.A., She's dating an older retired guy. What's going on?

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Girlfriend, London Olympics

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• It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Race, Mcdonalds

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• On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Ideas, Alaska

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• It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• 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

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

  Brock Yates

  Real, Car, Racing

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• When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Team, Experts, Ifs

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• I knew there was a certain level that I could get to within the sporting world. But as I continued with my career, not only did I grow, but the sport grew. All of a sudden, all of these doors opened to me. It's been amazing. I guess I was born at the right time.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Doors, Careers

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• I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Plans

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• You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Athlete, Important, Push Yourself

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• Olympics are probably the most important thing for Russians than any other athletes in the whole world. Since I was a little kid and since everybody was a little kid, their dream was playing in Olympic Games, especially if we have a chance to represent our country in Sochi, it's unbelievable and it's going to be a great thing.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Dream, Country, Athlete

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• I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  People, Champion, Looks

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• Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. At that time it seemed that it would never be broken. Tendulkar's 50 Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Long, Broken, Looks

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• I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Country, Gymnastics

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• I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.

  Melanie Roach

  Children, Decision, Mind

  "Gold medal moms prepare to storm Beijing" by By Jen Brown, www.today.com. August 04, 2010.

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• As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

  Brian Williams

  Taken, Athlete, Israel

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• It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible.

  Ted Ligety

  Firsts, Incredibles, Young

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• Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

  Eric Heiden

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

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• The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

  Dave Beard

  Athlete, Men, Games

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• America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.

  Alexander Haig

  People, Quality, World

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• At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.

  Shannon Miller

  Games, Want, Lasts

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• I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

  Bonnie Blair

  Remember

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