02.15.06
Olympic Quotes
Olympic Quotes
If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
- Jesse Owens
Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.
- Boxing Analyst
If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.
- Softball announcer
He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn’t like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.
- Basketball analyst
Ah, isn’t that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.
- At the rowing medal ceremony
Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.
- Soccer commentator
It was tough but I was able to produce a pretty good performance and I’m ecstatic about the result. [On beating Phelps in the race of the century, as it was billed, at the 2004 Olympics]
- Ian Thorpe
The odd thing is, I knew we were going to win on the way to the stadium - that’s the crazy thing about the Olympics.
- Darren Campbell
I’m sure these Olympics will feel a lot different. There is not only more pressure on us as a team but more pressure individually.
- Paul Hamm
“You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.”
“Thanks, King.”
- Dialogue between Gustav V of Sweden and Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Olympics
