Olympics Games Quotes

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. ~ Chris Brasher

At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one. ~ Shannon Miller

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era. ~ Bill Toomey

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world! ~ Shaun White

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions. ~ Eamonn Coghlan

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition. ~ Mary Lou Retton

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics. ~ Jeff Fenech

Rome herself was no longer new. She had grown old and decrepit. The republic of Cicero had degenerated into the despotism of Caesar. Tyrant after tyrant had seized power at the price of much bloodshed. Devotion to family, hard work, and frugality had been replaced by an addiction to pleasure and power. A welfare state based on conquest and slave labor bought the loyalty of the mob with free bread and gladiator games. The people were all too ready to trade their liberty for creature comforts. ~ Marcellino D'Ambrosio

In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group. ~ Kristi Yamaguchi

I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that? ~ Jim Edmonds

School Library Journal
Gr 3–6 - This interactive manual is fun to read and even more fun to put into practice. From hopscotch to dodge ball, jacks to solitaire, and string games to memory games, all types of activities are included. Games to play with a ball, with cards, in a car on the go, alone, or in a group are all here to be enjoyed. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. There are also historical and factual asides for many of the entries. Some include variations on the main game or alternate names for the activity that have been used through the years. The illustrations depict children demonstrating a particular aspect of a game or just enjoying themselves playing. This is a great resource for parents and teachers, as well as for children. - Cynde Suite, Bartow County Library System, Adairsville, GA ~ J.J. Ferrer

I played the game for 20 years, and I think that kept me on the football field, being adjusted. Getting hit so many times, being all out of whack, and going in to see my chiropractor kept me back on the football field. ~ Jerry Rice

The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior. ~ Ellen Goodman

My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it. ~ Steven Stamkos

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247. ~ Reggie Jackson

I take pride in being one of the tougher guys helping the team pressure and there were so many times when I was watching the games that it just killed me inside. Sometimes I couldn't watch and would just walk around the top level of the stadium. ~ Alecko Eskandarian

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam, drawn on the ground. The circle as such, however, has a magic significance. It is drawn with great care, all sorts of precautions being taken against cheating. The players are not allowed to leave the ring until they have discharged their obligations. But, sometimes a special hall is provisionally erected for the game, and this hall is holy ground. The Mahabharata devotes a whole chapter to the erection of the dicing hall - sabha - where the Pandavas are to meet their prtners. Games, of chance, therefore, have their serious side. They are included in ritual. ~ Johan Huizinga

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game. ~ Michael Owen

To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element. ~ Natalie Dormer

The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are as solid and warm as those loaves of bread. Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.
We turn back the crowd as the anthem of Panem plays.
Oh well, I think. There will be twenty-four of us. Odds are someone else will kill him before I do.
Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late. ~ Suzanne Collins

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance. ~ Emanuel Lasker

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend. ~ Don McLean

Of course, the best thing, if you play in the Premier League, you can always develop further as a player, and you are playing against the best players. You are also playing game after game all the time, two or three games a week. ~ Mesut Ozil

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror! ~ Eric Thomas

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. ~ Jim Cole

I hate guns," replied the Doctor. "Which isn't to say that a bit of fantasy violence can't be therapeutic. ~ Jacqueline Rayner

I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more. ~ Bam Margera

Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured. ~ Donald Kingsbury

Those who had never seen a tribe of cats at war, or at least playing war games, would look upon what came next as utter chaos. ~ Jim Butcher

I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out. ~ LeBron James

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper. ~ Bill Simmons

Like life, games were governed by rules. But unlike life, games were utterly defined by those rules. The rules were the game, and if one played by different rules, then one simply played a different game. Since a fixed framework of rules determined the meaning of every move as a move, games possessed a clarity that made life seen like a drunken brawl by comparison. The proprieties were indubitable, the permutations secure; only the outcome was shrouded. ~ R. Scott Bakker

In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. ~ Neal Stephenson

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy. ~ Josephine Hart

And I learn that maybe I don't suck at Peopling as much as I suspected. We stay up past my watch. We play way longer than we should. But hey, nobody's thinking about bad dreams anymore. ~ Amie Kaufman

It is in games that many men discover their paradise. ~ Robert Wilson Lynd

Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand. ~ Harry Golombek

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had. ~ Joe Montana

Commodore did not have a reputation for fun and games in 1980 - they were CBM, the business machine company. ~ Brian Bagnall

games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things. ~ Ian Bogost

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader. ~ Casey Stengel