Olympic games quotes, aphorisms and ideas by great authors and world athletes by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.
Epictetus
Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.
Jessica Park
I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
Michael Ventre
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
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard Nixon
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
Dawn Fraser
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
Bob Richards
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.
Dave Beard
The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming
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 Williams
If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
Jesse Owens
When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.
Florence Griffith Joyner
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
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
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.
Herb Elliott
A lo largo de los años he aprendido mucho del deporte, he vivido momentos muy importantes para mí que me han marcado y me han hecho madurar.
Ona Carbonell
For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.
Mary Lou Retton
There can be distractions, but if you’re isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.
Mary Lou Retton
It never gets tiring coming to Paralympic Games and crossing the line first. It is like a fairytale that just doesn’t seem to end, each time I come out.
Jason Smyth
My dream was to win the World Championships and I did it. So I said my next dream was to win the Paralympics. So what’s my next dream? It is sleeping.
Daniel Martins
We are all humans, we spend almost all our career together so when a teammate suffers, I suffer too.
Omara Durand
The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline.
Sunday Adelaja
It was not the money that was my main motive; it was the challenge and the thrill where I got my kicks. Armed robbery to me was like a sport. To take on an armored vehicle with two armed security guards – it was like an athlete attending the Olympic Games.
Drexel Deal
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
Will Rogers
Estoy convencida de que estamos aquí para retarnos día a día a hacer grandes cosas. Porque sólo atreviéndonos a luchar para conseguir nuestros sueños podremos hacerlos realidad.
Ona Carbonell
Arguing is the Olympics of talking
Stewart Stafford
Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Okay, we can swing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you. That’s pretty damn good. Unless someone’s dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.
Eddie Izzard
Here’s a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn’t see it and go, “Okay, is everybody ready to start now?”
Jack Handey
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