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“It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.”

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Author:Richard Gere

“The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.”

“As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.”

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Author:Byron Katie

“As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.”

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Author:Brian Williams

“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.”

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Author:Greg Louganis

“Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.”

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Author:Bruce Jenner

“My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.”

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Author:Noureddine Morceli

“Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.”

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Author:Noureddine Morceli

“I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.”

Thinking Olympics

Author:Noureddine Morceli

“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.”

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Author:Hermann Maier

“It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.”

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Author:Shawn Johnson

“It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.”

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Author:Michael Phelps

“A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.”

“The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.”

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Author:Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

“I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.”

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Author:Michelle Kwan

“From the very start in 1969, I wanted to be a part of helping our Special Olympics athletes succeed. I wanted to be on Eunice Shirver's team as another set of eyes, another set of hands and a heart working to be there for them, finding a way to help them be the best they can be.”

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Author:Rafer Johnson

“Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.”

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Author:Ryan Lochte

“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.”

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Author:Misty May-Treanor

“It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible.”

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Author:Ted Ligety

“Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.”

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Author:Eric Heiden

“I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.”

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Author:Allyson Felix

“It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!”

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Author:Allyson Felix

“The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.”

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Author:Dave Beard

“After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.”

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Author:Jennie Finch

“America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.”

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Author:Evander Holyfield

“The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.”

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Author:Alexander Haig

“At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.”

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Author:Shannon Miller

“I will remember all the days at the Olympics.”

Remember Olympics

Author:Bonnie Blair

“Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.”

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Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.

“The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.”

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Author:Brian Boitano

“The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.”

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Author:Jencarlos Canela

“I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!”

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Author:Tom Daley

“People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.”

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Author:Jessica Ennis

“Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics.”

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Author:Jessica Ennis

“I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.”

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Author:Missy Franklin

“When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.”

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Author:Roger Federer

“Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.”

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Author:Michael Chang

“I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.”

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Author:Ryan Giggs

“But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.”

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Author:Ryan Hall

“You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience.”

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Author:Ryan Hall

“The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.”

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Author:Ma Jian

“One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.”

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Author:Lydia Ko

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