Olympic Success Quotes

#1. Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Mary Lou Retton

#2. Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

Shashi Tharoor

#3. There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. I would ask ... of my supporters to get away from the personality conflicts that media tries to bring forward and focus on the real issues impacting the American people. And when you do that, I think the choice is pretty clear and that is that Hillary Clinton is far and away the superior candidate.

Bernie Sanders

#5. I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#6. This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

Dan Millman

#7. I hope I have important things to say.

Elizabeth Edwards

#8. Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#9. Human beings have a great capacity for sticking to false beliefs with great passion and tenacity,

Bruce H. Lipton

#10. I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.

Tom Brokaw

#11. Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Aristotle.

#12. Focus on your strength and maximum its potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.

Rick Perry

#14. When one knows and one does not, the one who does not must bow his head and the one who does must take responsibility.

Stephen King

#15. Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

Paul Theroux

#16. When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Alicia Keys

#17. I understand things that are American, for better or worse.

Twyla Tharp

#18. 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

#19. Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

Buddy Rich

#20. Because the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own ... Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do ...

Richard Russo

#21. People only hate what they see in themselves.

Marilyn Manson

#22. Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

Napoleon Hill