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• I’m more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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  Tags in Grassroots, Olympic

• I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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  Tags in Olympic, Realizing

• People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I’ve always wanted to be – a mother.

  Gail Devers

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  Tags in Olympic, Games

• It’s been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

  Shawn Machel Johnson

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  Tags in Girls, Olympic

• Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that’s offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That’s my ideal.

  Bob Costas

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  Tags in Broadcast, Olympic

• It’s torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it’s out of my control. There’s not much I can do.

  Steven Lopez

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  Tags in Olympic

• Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

  Rebecca Lobo

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  Tags in Olympic, Medal

• When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

  Eric Shanteau

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  Tags in Olympic, Pressure, Yourself

• There’s a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games.

  Eric Shanteau

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Olympic, Games

• Olympic medals are the one medal that I don’t have; I’ve won just about every other competition that I’ve been at.

  Eric Shanteau

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  Tags in Olympic, Medals, Won

• People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

  Cathy Freeman

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  Tags in Best, Olympic

• In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

  Baron Pierre de Coubertin

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  Tags in Olympic

• The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

  Baron Pierre de Coubertin

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  Tags in World, Olympic

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

  Baron Pierre de Coubertin

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  Tags in Games, Olympic

• One must put things in perspective – I’ve been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Olympic, Circumstance

• I’ve been to three Olympics and I don’t feel I’ve ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

  Paula Radcliffe

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  Tags in Feelings, Olympic, Game

• I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don’t have is an Olympic medal.

  Paula Radcliffe

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  Tags in Happiness, Olympic

• I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Myself, Olympic

• I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Myself, Olympic

• An Olympic medal won’t define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Olympic