Olympics Quotes

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

~ Steve Backley

When you think a positive thought, you become positive.

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Mohith Agadi

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

~ Sammy Toora

Compete like you cannot fail.

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Michael Phelps

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

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Amanda Dubin

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

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

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

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

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

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.

~ Eric Liddell

The Olympics are never just about sports.

~ George Packer

The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

~ Caitlyn Jenner