1996 Olympics Quotes

#1. The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

Dominique Moceanu

#2. I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#3. It was always the ones with A-minuses who came around to argue about their grades.

Kelly Oliver

#4. He's been an inspiration for me since the Olympics 1996.

Wladimir Klitschko

#5. I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

Michael Johnson

#6. The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)
-Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!
Stanza 1.

Alexander Pope

#7. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

Mitch Albom

#8. What's the ONE THING I can do, (2) such that by doing it, (3) everything else will be easier or unnecessary? There

Vu Tran

#9. love you for your smart-ass mouth, and your purity, and your kindness, and your rambling, and your love of family, and for the way you care about those you love. But most of all, I love you because you're you, and you accept me for who I am.

Nina Levine

#10. About to quit." "Why?" He laughed. "Everybody quits - you'll quit. Nobody worth a shit can work here.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. Boundaries are important. And not only because they keep the wolves out and the sheep in. They determine how much interaction there can be between one thing and another, and how much exposure something local might have to the outside world.

Anonymous

#12. (Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record)
I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

Noureddine Morceli

#13. My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

Jonathan Brown

#14. I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

Morgan Freeman

#15. The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

Andrew Sullivan