Olympic Training Quotes

#1. If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

Colson Whitehead

#2. The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us a continuation of our training, we will compete in only this World cup. We don't want to travel too much before the Olympic Games and we want to focus on the Games.

Pavol Hochschorner

#3. It was the most intense training schedule I had ever experienced in my life. Ten to twelve hours of training every single day. You cherish every moment of sleep you get. But it really helped us build that base going into the Olympic year.

Meaghan Mikkelson

#4. Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher ... the world.

Erik Qualman

#5. The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

Richard M. Daley

#6. There is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Gregory Nunn

#7. I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. The question is just as important as the answer.

Charlie Rose

#9. I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Eric Idle

#10. Life is not always what we want it to be, but we can color it any way we like, in order to make it the perfect painting, even when things look rough, there is someone out there who has it worse than us.

Gia Russell

#11. I wanted to howl until I was nothing but sound.

Lish McBride

#12. If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

D. B. Sweeney

#13. I started watching 'The Stooges' religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.

Chris Diamantopoulos

#14. The harsh cry startled the fox, now crouching almost flat in the undergrowth. It leapt from its hiding place and up the bank. There was a flash of green light, a yelp, and the fox fell back to the ground, dead.

J.K. Rowling

#15. There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Mike Huckabee

#16. The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.

Nastia Liukin

#17. My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

Sasha Cohen

#18. This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!

Peter Kauzer

#19. I don't care if you wear a muu muu or a tutu, you'll still be beautiful."
"That's the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me," I joked with him. "And you get extra points for making it rhyme.

Kristen Day

#20. You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

Seth Godin

#21. For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.

Giles Duley

#22. We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way.

Liu Jingmin

#23. The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Thomas Paine

#24. Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it reminds me of my mom.

Phoebe Tonkin

#25. When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

William Shatner

#26. 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 Johnson

#27. Being the first Olympic medallist of my country means that I have some obligations and it was a very tough job for me to resume a proper training schedule due to the (new) status I have in my country.

Benjamin Boukpeti

#28. I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

Diana Lopez