John Ridley Quotes

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

It is an honor to represent my country in the Olympics.

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

If you are in your sport for your country, you should be able to go to the Olympic Games and represent your sport for your country bringing people together in the interests of sport. It's a fantastic Olympic ideal, and I uphold it as much as I can.

To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

The Olympics have been an amazing part of Los Angeles' history. In many ways in 1932, they put us on the map when people didn't even know where Los Angeles was. In 1984, they were the first profitable Olympics of the modern era.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts.