Olympics Quotes - Page 22

• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, Actors, World

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• The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Remember You, Remembers You

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

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• The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

  Jencarlos Canela

  Dream, Hard Work, Impossible

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• I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!

  Tom Daley

  Years, Normal, Celebrate

  "Tom Daley's mum is VERY cool - she's paying for him to get a tattoo" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. May 23, 2012.

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• I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Party, College, Thinking

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• Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

  Ryan Lochte

  Sports, Fashion, Swimming

  "Hot Topic: Ryan Lochte" by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 5, 2013.

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• From the very start in 1969, I wanted to be a part of helping our Special Olympics athletes succeed. I wanted to be on Eunice Shirver's team as another set of eyes, another set of hands and a heart working to be there for them, finding a way to help them be the best they can be.

  Rafer Johnson

  Team, Heart, Athlete

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• In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

  Greg Louganis

  Sports, Moving, People

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• Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Country, Ice Cream

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

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• My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Motivation, Real, Careers

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• Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Past, Sick, Barcelona

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• I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Thinking

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• I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

  Hermann Maier

  Lakes, Years, Cities

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• It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

  Shawn Johnson

  Funny, Sound, Lucky

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• It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Morning, Swim

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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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• The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Russia, Rights, Space

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• I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.

  Michelle Kwan

  Years

  "Cool on the ice". www.cnn.com.

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• People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.

  Jessica Ennis

  Sports, Athlete, People

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

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• Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics.

  Jessica Ennis

  Home, Athlete, Unique

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

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• I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

  Lauren Potter

  Independent, People, Community

  "On World Down Syndrome Day, Speaking Out on How Bullying Hurts and Kills Dreams" by Lauren Potter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

  Diana Lopez

  Volleyball, Player, People

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• I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Running, Past, Two

  "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

  Vanessa Mae

  Guy, World, Championship

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• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  Ma Jian

  World, Confirmation, Beijing

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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