Quotes of: Olympism Keyword

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

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The Last Wild Edge: One Woman's Journey from the Arctic Circle to the Olympic Rain Forest

I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.

Katherine Jenkins

Reach into your heart and find the gold in it. Mine is shaped like an Olympic medal. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

Kurt Angle

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

Natalie du Toit

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.

Ryan Hall

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

Sugar Ray Leonard

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Shaun White

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

Tom Daley

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

Tara Lipinski

America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.

Karen Abbott

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Mitch Gaylord

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

Ma Jian