Olympics Quotes - Page 3

• You have to train your mind like you train your body.

  Bruce Jenner

  Motivational, Inspirational Sports, Athlete

  "The Brain-Training Secrets Of Olympic Athletes" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

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• After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Sports, Believe

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• There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

  Lolo Jones

  Motivational Sports, Hard Work, Athlete

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• There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

  Chris Brasher

  Athlete, Soul, Olympic Spirit

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• Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Finishing, Complaining, Politics

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• I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

  Shaun White

  Sports, World, Beats

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• Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.

  Kerri Walsh

  Athlete, Beer, People

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• I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'

  Sophie Hitchon

  Girl, Athlete, London Olympics

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• The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Color, White, Flags

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• If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

  Kimberley Locke

  Race, Idols, Stills

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

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• I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.

  Luke Donald

  Fun, Kids, Winning

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• Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Kids, Idols, America

  "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

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• My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Whirlwind, Has Beens

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• When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.

  Richard Pryor

  Fire, Blue, Saws

  "Live At the Sunset Strip", 1982.

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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sports, Sarcastic, Cancer

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• Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

  Jaime Pressly

  Girlfriend, Gymnastics, Bronze Medal

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

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• My real goal is the Olympics. It's going to be tough but it was very good preparation to play here.

  Anastasia Myskina

  Real, Play, Goal

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• Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.

  Tonya Harding

  Causes, Lost Everything, Remember

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• No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

  James C. Collins

  Success, Dream, Morning

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• Sorry to disappoint you but I don’t even watch the Olympics no more.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Sorry, Motivation, Watches

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• It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

  Stephen King

  Running, Zero, Mean

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• In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

  Peggy Fleming

  Events, Midst, 1960s

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

  Aly Raisman

  Cocky, Right Now

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• I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.

  Leisel Jones

  Sports, Good Friend, Three

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• I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

  Duncan Armstrong

  Sports, Dream, Wall

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