Olympics Quotes

Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One.
Timothy Griffin

Business, Around, Whether

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
Lydia Ko

Country, Understand, Play

Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election.
Peter Schuyler

Democracy, Election, Actually

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.
Misty May-Treanor

Again, College, Behind

I didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics.
Misty May-Treanor

I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title.
Billy Joe Saunders

Great, Said, Start

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
Billy Joe Saunders

Time, Move, Felt

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.
Louis Tomlinson

Done, Country, Proud

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.
Greg Louganis

Work, Sports, Wanted

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

Water, Color, Drinking

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
Diana Lopez

Tell, Player, Track

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.
Phillip Phillips

Home, Cool, Night

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.
Ato Boldon

Someone, Big, Trials

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
Brian Williams

Silence, Wrong, Known

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.
Dick Ebersol

Career, Both, Center

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.
Dick Ebersol

Good, Character, Bad

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.
Dick Ebersol

Game, Football, Basketball

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.
Bruce Dern

I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
Melanie Roach

Family, Mind, Children

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

Stress, Trials, Worried

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

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

Work, Great, Remember

It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
Dana Hussein

Good, Goal, Dream

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

Life, Maybe, Excellence

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.
Marianne Vos

Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.
Kohei Uchimura

Experience, Give, Different

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
Im Dong-Hyun

Time, Strong, Become

I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
Nader al-Masri

Success, Time, God

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
Taylor Phinney

After, Year, Europe

I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.
Ryoko Tani

Win, Try, London

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