The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. — Dave Barry
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. — Andy Rooney
It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics. — David Rudisha
When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme. — Travis Rice
I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. — Shawn Johnson
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. — Pierre de Coubertin
There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. — Chris Brasher
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. — Pierre de Coubertin
Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. — Stanley Crawford
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. — Bill Veeck
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. — Jahangir Khan
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. — Katarina Witt
We always believed winter is the best time to invest. — Changpeng Zhao
Olympic Games Quotes
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself. — Jesse Owens
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. — Pierre de Coubertin
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself. — Jesse Owens
The potential for greatness lives within us all. — Wilma Rudolph
Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand. — Ted Lowe
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. — Bobby Robson
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. — David Acfield
It's all about the journey, not the outcome. — Carl Lewis
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. — Eddie Izzard
Olympic Medals Quotes
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. — Fidel Castro
Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made. — Gabby Douglas
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. — Jesse Owens
After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job. — Jesse Owens
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work — Andre Agassi
The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal. — Mitch Gaylord
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. — Clara Hughes
Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts. — Pierre de Coubertin
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever. — Wilma Rudolph
Never put an age limit on your dreams. — Dara Torres
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. — Marvin Olasky
As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state. — Rick Larsen
With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott. — Harvey Fierstein
I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slopestyle skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd. — Nick Goepper
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. — John Towner Williams
Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now. — Charles Barkley
Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains. — Greg Rutherford
I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever. — Cindy Klassen
I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games. — Jacques Rogge
One can feel calm and at ease. Just leave kids alone, please. — Vladimir Putin
The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports. — Peter Sagal
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. — Debi Thomas
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. — Vanessa Mae
Success is always an easier motivator, because you want more of it. But I've also been motivated by failure. Had I medaled in London, I don't think I would be one of the few that have gone to a Summer and Winter. I would have been content with that medal. Instead, I used that failure to go to the Winter Olympics. I always tell people that failure can be one of your biggest motivators if you just have an attitude adjustment about it. — Lolo Jones
I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing - $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities. — Daniel Tosh
My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream. — Kristi Yamaguchi
We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia. — Garry Kasparov
The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they see themselves as part of a family, a street, a neighbourhood, a community, a province , a region, and on special occasions like Canada Day and Grey Cup weekend and, of course, during the Winter Olympics, a country called Canada. Beyond the borders, they pine; within the borders, they more often whine — Roy MacGregor
Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics. — Scott Walker
If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries. — Tony Hawk
When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics. — Bryn Terfel
I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics. — Dick Pound
I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open. — Shani Davis
This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it! — Peter Kauzer
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