I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.
Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.
Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.
At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.
There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.
I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!
My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.
It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible.
I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956
Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.
I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
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.
I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.
Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.
And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will