The Olympics are different, I’ll admit that now and stop lying to myself.
I believe that if I can qualify for the Olympics, I have the skills to compete at the highest level and do good for my country.
In the ’80 Olympics… people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
I’ve never been to the Olympics, so I don’t know what to expect. It’s better for me, just like my first Worlds… My third Worlds, I knew what it was like, so I was like, ‘Oh my goodness. But this is my first Olympics, and not knowing what to expect is good for me.
I’ve been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.
My dad saw it as a goal before I did, when I was 12 years old. I didn’t think competing in Olympics was possible until I was 16.
I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that’s why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.
The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning.
The Olympics are the biggest thing in boxing and the more you do as an amateur, the better deal you get as a pro.
If you’re going to stay in the Olympics, you’ve got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I’m so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.
Growing up with brothers, I’ve always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport I was involved in, I wanted to go to the Olympics for that!
One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it’s going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that’s not reality.
The pandemic, first and foremost, I think had an effect on all of us in different ways, and coming here to the Olympics is something that we’ve all pushed and strived to do.
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.
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.
I’ve realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.
Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.
We are better placed than Pakistan as we have been playing against top teams around the world. Pakistan on the other hand failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in their history.
In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I’m still at the top.
Honestly, I would love to fight Henry Cejudo. You’ve got that gold medalist in the Olympics, I would love to test myself against that.
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
I’d love to have another chance to represent my country in the Olympics. If I’m healthy, absolutely… I’m very realistic when it comes to goals. I think it will all depend on my health.
My generation started in big tournaments. ’88 Olympics, we got silver. ’89 European Championship, we got gold. 1990 World Cup in Argentina, we got gold. ’91 European Championship, we got gold, and then there was a civil war, and for three years, we didn’t play.
He’s a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!
With the Olympics, you have to bring out all the best tricks to win.
For me, it’s a big deal to compete in the Olympics because it’s so tough to qualify.
I love my country. That’s the thing about the Olympics. You’re doing it for your country.
It’s always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
I think it’s a great accomplishment. Qualifying for the Olympics once is already hard enough now I’m about to compete in my fourth, especially now that we are in the middle of the pandemic.
When I’m on planes, I’d talk to people and I’d tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn’t. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They’re really like the X Games for the world!
I grew up watching as much Olympics as I could, checking out all the sports. As a kid, you dream of playing your sport and representing your country and seeing the famous rings.
Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.
Just being here at the Olympics is pretty incredible in itself. Seeing the unity of the athletes and to see how everyone has worked so hard to get here – and we are all so excited to be here – it’s awesome to be able to experience it.
I don’t think I could ever make 155. I made 163 for the Olympics, and that is a super low weight for me. I’m a fairly big person, and for me to make 163 was incredibly difficult.
I got a lot of good things from Olympics.
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 was part of the Indian contingent that went to Karachi for an invitational meet, before the Moscow Olympics of 1980 and I was taking B-Complex in liquid form, as advised by Dr. P.M.K. Nambiar, a cardiac specialist based in Kannur.
It’s a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics.
My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal level, playing in the Olympics would be a huge honour. However, the Games in Rio are still four years away and I certainly won’t be making any decisions with regards to participating any time soon.
Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you’re an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.
When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn’t believe it. I said to myself, ‘Don’t let your expression show that he has just made a total ass of himself. Be cool, and just keep right on talking.’
Udaya Laxmi is not the only athlete who has been asked by the administrators to go after my records; they now want to take away the only record I hold, in the 400m hurdles that I set at the final of the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.
If you want to train hard enough to go to the Olympics, then you’re going to go out, and you’re going to do it. It doesn’t matter what skin color or who you are.
Going to the Olympics would have been great.
My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I’ve done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.
Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.
I won’t win a World Cup, and I won’t win the Olympics, but I’m sure I can compete with the best, and that’s what I want to show.
Anybody who says the Olympics is just another race is not being honest.
Just to be able to say that I’m from Miami, Florida, in the Winter Olympics was an honor, and I’m proud to be able to say that I’m playing on the U.S. national team for baseball from Miami as a Cuban-American.
There’s no day when I don’t think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days – and be the best in the world. I can’t think of anything so motivating.
I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.
Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
A gold medal at the Olympics is hard to top.
Just going to the Olympics would be a dream come true. I could finish last, and it would still be an amazing experience.
When I win a gold medal in the Olympics… I would say every pain, tears and screams in training will be worth it.
If I win the Olympics in Rio, then I’ll have each title in double.
I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone’s still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y’know, that’s alright for me.
The Special Olympics motto, ‘Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,’ really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that’s all any of us can hope for – a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.
