Quotes of: Olympism Keyword

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

Sally Ride

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Shashi Tharoor

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.

Scott Walker

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

Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

Ted Ligety

I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.

Luke Donald

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

Missy Franklin

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

Ma Jian

she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport

Marlene Perez

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

Mary Lou Retton

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

Natalie Coughlin

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Alicia Sacramone

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

Charlie White

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

Ryan Lochte

I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fulfill my dreams coming to the 2012 London Olympics.

Mary Kom

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

Oscar Robertson

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

Charlotte Casiraghi

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

Eric Shanteau

For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.

Giles Duley

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.

Johnny Weir

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Pierre de Coubertin