All Quotes

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
‐‐ Derek Bok

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.
‐‐ Burleigh Grimes

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
‐‐ Pythagoras

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.
‐‐ Mike Mills

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.
‐‐ Leland Ryken

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
‐‐ Frederick Pollock

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.
‐‐ Adelina Sotnikova

The Olympic Games are a national cause, and a national cause calls for a nationwide attitude.
‐‐ Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.
‐‐ Dayron Robles

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.
‐‐ Tina Maze

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.
‐‐ Russell Mark

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
‐‐ Avery Brundage

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.
‐‐ Bill Toomey

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.
‐‐ George Foreman

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.
‐‐ Bill Toomey

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
‐‐ Franz Beckenbauer

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

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.
‐‐ Sergei Bubka

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
‐‐ Brian Boitano

The Olympics are never just about sports.
‐‐ George Packer

The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.
‐‐ Lolo Jones

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
‐‐ Ilya Ilyin

The Olympics is a dream of mine.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.
‐‐ David Rudisha

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.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.
‐‐ Kyle Shewfelt

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.
‐‐ Sasha Cohen

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

The Olympics is not really about the sport, it's about the story behind the person. You keep the sport relatively simple to understand - let the fans understand that a takedown is 1 point, a turn is 2, a pin and the match is over. Keep it simple, and keep the story on the individual.
‐‐ Kurt Angle

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.
‐‐ Steve Alford

The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

The Olympics is this big global event, but when neighbours come up and wish you well, it feels more personal.
‐‐ Jonathan Brownlee

The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn't see how there could ever be anything better.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

The Olympics must be my curse or something.
‐‐ Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
‐‐ Debi Thomas