Olympics Quotes - Page 6

• I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.

  Apolo Ohno

  Wall, Knives, Impact

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• When I got the women's marathon into the Olympics and we had races all over the world I thought, 'That's great, now we're heading towards total equality.' Then you see that there are women who are still not allowed to drive, get an education, or travel unless they have a male companion or can't carry their passport. There are those who are mired with incredible poverty in North Africa, the mid-east, South East Asia and there's a ridiculous amount of human trafficking.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Race, World, Asia

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, School

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• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  Jackie Chan

  Country, People

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• My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time of my life. It's not very informational. You're not going to get comprehensive knowledge about the Han dynasty of China or about India's Emergency. But you might learn how one person felt about the Los Angeles Olympics.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Book, India, Archives

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

  Johnny Weir

  Summer, Events, Tunes

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• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  Vera Wang

  Mother, School, Training

  "The Vera Wang Interview: Made of Honor" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

  Shania Twain

  Television

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

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• Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Opportunity, Boston, Years

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

  Bill Toomey

  Corny, Steroid, Banned

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• Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

  Daley Thompson

  Games, Community, World

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• When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

  Hope Solo

  Football, Real, Support

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• My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

  Hope Solo

  Years, World, Four

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• Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

  Maria Shriver

  People, Trying, Special

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• I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

  Steven Morrissey

  Voice, Jingoism, Events

  "Olympics 2012: Morrissey Trashes London Games, British 'Jingoism'" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 6, 2012.

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• When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Father, Giving, Advice

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

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• My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

  Shawn Johnson

  Training, Skiing, Skis

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• In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Blessing, Tears

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• In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.

  Shawn Johnson

  Team, Athlete, Opportunity

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• To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

  Shawn Johnson

  Feelings, Gold, World

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• People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, People, Tvs

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• Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

  Shawn Johnson

  Training, Gold, Whole Life

  Shawn Johnson (2012). “Winning Balance: What I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams”, p.115, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

  Boris Johnson

  Running, Jobs, London

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

  Penn Jillette

  Magic, Special, Entertainment

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

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• The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

  David Icke

  Sports, London Olympics, Symbolism

  "What the devil's he on about? David Icke says Opening Ceremony was a secret Satanic ritual" by Simon Head, www.mirror.co.uk. August 1, 2012.

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