My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.
Alberto Juantorena

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.
Bill Toomey

My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
Sasha Cohen

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.
Bruce McCulloch

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Olivia Newton-John

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
Nadia Comaneci

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
Oksana Baiul

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.
Bill Toomey

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
Cathy Freeman

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
Olga Korbut

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.
Brent Musburger

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.
Scott Hamilton

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.
Norm Dicks

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

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
Jahangir Khan

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
Mary Lou Retton

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
Andy Rooney

The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.
Bill Toomey

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
Wilma Rudolph

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.
Kristi Yamaguchi