Any time you have an opportunity to do something for the first time, it’s super exciting, and I just want to soak up everything, and each experience… just to say that you’ve represented your country at the Olympics, it’s such a rare opportunity.
In the 123rd minute of the semifinal game at the Olympics against Canada, I scored the game-winning goal that brought us to the finals. You can’t replicate those do-or-die moments in practice or a friendly game.
The Olympics were the most pressure I’ve ever felt.
What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.
The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.
From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in ’72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn’t stop when you stop skiing.
I’d love to compete in the Summer Olympics.
Even if you’ve been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
We’re going through the Olympics. We’re watching women working as teams. We’re watching men working as teams. We’re watching all working as teams. We’re proud of men and women getting medals. That’s how the Navy should be working.
The Olympics is a cool opportunity to represent our country, which is amazing. But I have another community I am competing for, and that is the LGBT community.
I always say, ‘When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn’t be in any other place in the planet – you should be here.’
It’s quite an honor to be selected to represent my country in the Olympics.
I didn’t realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It’s no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
I can’t count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I’ve done and how many world championships I’ve been to, so I think I’ve really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect.
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of ‘Oppression Olympics.’ Gold medal goes to the most offended.
This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.
I don’t know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.
When they did the Olympics in Seoul – or elsewhere – didn’t each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?
I’ve done everything – All-Stars, Olympics. The only thing I haven’t done is win MVP of the league. There’s nothing else I haven’t accomplished.
We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there’s been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that’s why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.
Being 16 is such a great age because I’m still really young, and I’ll still have a lot of chances. But the Olympics only come every four years, so you don’t want to waste an opportunity.
The Olympics must be my curse or something.
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The ‘dazzling royals’ have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
I look at photos of the Sochi Olympics – even though it sometimes seems like it was just yesterday – that photo doesn’t even look like me. It looks like a child. I don’t even recognize myself.
I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.
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.
I think we could really play the Olympics.
Rio was always going to be on the schedule for me, whether I had won in London or not. Triathlon is one of those sports where the Olympics is always the most important and the most interesting race, and I always wanted to have a crack at Rio and defend my title.
Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
People used to call the Paralympics the ‘Special Olympics.’ These men and women are athletes. They are warriors. They are people who are not confined by what they have been given. It’s amazing to see where, and how far, the human body can really go.
During the 2012 Olympics, I decided to put on some cheesy pop because I knew Ellen White liked it. The first song was ‘Reach for the Stars’ by S Club 7, and before I knew it, everyone was singing it – suddenly it was our song.
The Olympics is still my greatest achievement… I have many belts, but there is only one Olympic gold.
Everybody at the Olympics are almost at level par.
The Olympics have always been very special to me.
I love the fact I am a Cuban American man who represented the United States in the Olympics. I was proud to wear the red-white-and-blue.
In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They’re every four years and it’s such a small group.
If it doesn’t mean more to a normal human being like Dan Evans, who could change his life and career by winning not a gold but a bronze medal for Great Britain, if he doesn’t want to take that chance, I would say something is wrong with the Olympics in what it’s worth in tennis.
My family will be disappointed only if I’m disappointed, and hopefully that won’t be the case. I’m trying to view the Olympics like any other race and I think the London course will suit my style.
I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there’s nothing wrong with that if I’m into it and I’m healthy and my priorities can fit around that.
My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.
As a co-chair of the State’s 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
I’ve always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
The Olympics are a completely different beast. It’s the most magical moment of your career.
I lost in the 1988 Olympics, and I was pretty depressed for about eight years. I quit wrestling, and I got into Brazilian jujitsu in 1991.
I feel like I’m always looking to continue improving myself. I’m always looking to win. I’m super competitive, so going into the Olympics, I feel like that’s nothing different.
I didn’t make the Olympics, but I beat a lot of the guys that went to the Olympics, so I felt I was at that level even though I didn’t make it.
When I started out as a 12-13 year old, it was a stupid idea. I remember when I went to try to get coached by Heinz Reinkemeier and my coach Gaby, when I went and met them, India was nowhere in shooting. They said, ‘you want to win a gold at the Olympics? Why don’t you ride an elephant back home?’
Everyone wants to represent their country and my dream is to one day play in the Olympics.
My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.
The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event.
The Olympics is this big global event, but when neighbours come up and wish you well, it feels more personal.
I was ecstatic when we won – to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.
Playing the Olympics is a massive dream.
You can’t go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.
Once I retired from skating, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the chance to come back to the Olympics.
Special Olympics is such an empowering organization for the thousands of athletes involved and those of us like myself who lend support to them.
