Olympics Quotes - Page 2

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

Nothing can replace the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I was so proud when I played in '98 and I was so proud when we won in 2002.

I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

Am I worried? Sure, I'm worried. When it comes to the Olympics, it can't be a predictable finish.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.

The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.

People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics.

Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it, you can qualify.' But it wasn't something that I actually believed I could do. Even now, I definitely understand and know I'm going to the Olympics, but I don't think it will fully sink in until I'm actually there and experiencing it.

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

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.

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.