Quotes of: Olympic-medal Keyword

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

Mary Kom

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

Paula Radcliffe

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

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

Hope Solo

Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.

Janine Shepherd

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

Eric Shanteau

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Evan Sayet

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

Hakeem Olajuwon

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Daley Thompson

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

Boris Johnson

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

Ban Ki-moon

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

George Pataki

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Kim Yuna

What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.

Richard Attias

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.

Eduardo Paes

There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.

Taufik Hidayat

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

Apolo Ohno

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

Aly Raisman

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

Richard M. Nixon

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

Valeria Golino

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

Frank Shorter