Quotes on Olympics Games

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

I can't remember the last day I didn't train.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.