1976 Olympics Quotes

#1. Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Don Kardong

#2. Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

Caitlyn Jenner

#3. When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, and he adorned our Wheaties boxes. We all wanted to be Bruce Jenner.

Nicholas Kristof

#4. My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

Martin O'Malley

#5. And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy.

David Duval

#6. Who said memory is kind? Memory is merciless. My father was right. 'All the things you want to remember, Paullina, I want to forget'.

Paullina Simons

#7. Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#8. I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.

Lee Westwood

#9. I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

John Frankenheimer

#10. Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Henry Moore

#11. Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness ... that cannot be denied.

Meg Cabot

#12. Penn station", Ali said to the driver, slamming the door. Then she turned back to Hanna. "We ditch the bitches", she said. "And then we take them down".

Sara Shepard

#13. Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.

Libbie Hickman

#14. The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

Neil MacGregor

#15. Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins ...

Nicolas Chamfort

#16. Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#17. Faith is a firm assurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

Caitlyn Jenner