The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
John Williams

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.
Sergei Bubka

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.
Susan Estrich

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
Brian Boitano

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
Dawn Fraser

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

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
Debi Thomas

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.
Marion Jones

The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club.
Richard Gough

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
Alexander Haig

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.
Chris Brasher

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
Dorothy Hamill

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.
Debbie Meyer

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.
George Nethercutt

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien

To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.
Joe Sakic

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
Bruce Jenner

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.
George Pataki

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
Mark Spitz