Olympics Quotes

It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.

I don't answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I'm not here and go home.

Jennifer Weiner

Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.

Jennifer Weiner

I'm saying that it's a big decision. Your first love is important. It's part of your story The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.

Jennifer Weiner

Sometimes I wish it has been you.

Jennifer Weiner

First of all, it's life. You don't win.

Jennifer Weiner

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

Jennifer Weiner

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.

Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.

Craig Groeschel

Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory.I believe we were more mature then...Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport...In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.

Louis Zamperini

The only reason guys wanna play pool with girls is to see you leaning over the table, looking sexy. Not that I wouldn't enjoy that... immensely." - Chris

Jennifer Comeaux

What if winning the gold medal at the Olympics wasn't the end?What if... it was only the beginning?

If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.

If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.

Steven E. Landsburg

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits,

Compete like you cannot fail.

Sports has no bounds, no race, no religion, no caste and no creed. Keep out all this from sports. Sports are pure joy, do not ruin with your ignorance

No wrong in aiming or applauding the win but always agnize one's efforts.

When you think a positive thought, you become positive.

Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes.

Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.

The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.

Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.

These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.

If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.

Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’.

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

See it, feel it, trust it!

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

Invest your energy in the things you can control.

See it first in your mind, then become it.

Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

To think is good. To obsess is bad.

Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.

There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.

If obstacles are large, jump higher.

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

Act like a champion, and then become one.

It is action that creates motivation.

If not now, when?

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.

1 2 Next