Olympic Hero Quotes

#1. Your Olympic Hero is scheduled to wrestle a match against the man they call the big red retard; not that I have anything against retarded people cause I don't. As a matter of fact, I have a lot of retarded fans out there that admire and respect your Olympic Hero, and I wish them well.

Kurt Angle

#2. Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

Kerri Walsh

#3. I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match ... so ... I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero.

Oscar Gutierrez

#4. If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

Kurt Angle

#5. In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

Lavinia Milosovici

#6. But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties, there is no hurry.

Steven Martin

#7. I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

Jesse Owens

#8. If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

Jesse Owens

#9. When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

Monica Crowley

#10. I needed the loss. I needed to lose to win. Like they say, 'If you lose, don't lose the lessons.

Phyllis George Brown

#11. The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

Alan Moore

#12. For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Jesse Owens

#13. Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

#14. Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

Jesse Owens

#15. When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.

Marina Abramovic

#16. Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

Jesse Owens

#17. I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

Maeve Binchy

#18. Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Tryon Edwards

#19. Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

Richard Attias

#20. The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

Jesse Owens

#21. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#22. We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.

Matthew Arnold

#23. Something soft turn to stone within her. She had no choice. She had to fight. She had to win.
She would learn. And then she'd free them.
Or join them.

Amber Argyle