#olympic

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956. ↗

— Bruce Dern

#i tried #make #olympics #team #tried

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#created #games #individual #olympic #olympic games

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#neither #nor #olympic #property #race

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#both #career #center #creatively #emotionally

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#get #go #i #olympics #pool

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#growing up #hero #jordan #michael #michael jordan

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#aspirations #children #give #go #go for it

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#britain #great #great britain #monumental #need

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#china #constructed #event #experience #failed

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#competition #conceive #courage #designed #embody