#olympic

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#captures #fun #fun thing #get #heart

In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#changed #definitely #different #every #four

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#dreaming #experience #fulfillment #impossible #olympics

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#contributing #feeling #felt #get #good

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#lifelong #many #olympics #took #training

The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club. ↗

— Richard Gough

#club #cup #done #expensive #future

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#before #beijing #dudes #facing #faster

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#days #different #had #i #olympics

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#champion #four #get #more #olympic

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#believing #bigger #knew #make #olympics