Tribute to the olympics Quotes

“What if winning the gold medal at the Olympics wasn't the end?What if... it was only the beginning?”

“They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.”

“The Olympics are never just about sports.”

“The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline.”

“Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.”

“If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.”

“The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.”

“Outside the Olympics, there are massive discrepancies within all sports. But the positive side for me is that the Olympics are the biggest platform there is, and there's total equality across all sports.”

“African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.”

“After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.”