#olympics

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

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#bit #brilliant #britain #british #compare

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#banned #olympics #steroids #until #were

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#again #amount #behind #college #goes

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#did #i #individual #jesse #met

The Olympics must be my curse or something. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#must #olympics #something

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both. ↗

— Vera Wang

#both #doing #either #ended #expected

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

— Ai Weiwei

#britain #great #great britain #monumental #need

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#beijing #china #desires #effort #enter