Olympics Games Quotes

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.

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Had my dream again where I’m making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I’d nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.

If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.

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.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

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

One shouldn’t be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.

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

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

If you’re fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.

I got a bronze medal and I can’t complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

Never put an age limit on your dreams.

I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.

In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world’s flags … this is a true international emblem.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it’s going to be your last one.

When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening anymore.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

There can be distractions, but if you’re isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance ‘debilitating’ drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That’s pretty good. Unless someone’s dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.