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Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#fantasy #literary-criticism #metaphors #tolkien #writing

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

— Sergei Bubka

#competition #difficult #happen #olympics #predict

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#daytime #host #i #nbc #olympics

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#before #fights #five #had #i

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#amateur #believe #clearly #death #decipher

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#break #i #meant #meant to be #now

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#ever #field #going #guesses #i

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#did #doing #early #ever #i

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#after #another #city #competitive #felt

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#call #coaches #father #give #give me