Dick Ebersol Quotes

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

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.

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

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

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

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

The Olympics is all about inclusion, coming together for sport. That's the footprint I want to leave.

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.

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

Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts.

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.

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

I have always loved the Summer Olympics.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

My father represented India at the Olympics, and I also want to do that.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.

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