Karen Abbott Quotes

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.

I don't know much about the history of track and field, but I know Gail Devers.

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.

The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

History will tell the story, America will always stand.

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.

The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.

To Barack and Michelle Obama - America owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

How about those Olympics, ladies and gentlemen. Didn't London look like the place to be? New York City was in the running for this Olympics. But here's what happened. We got outbribed.