Quotes About The Special Olympics

#1. Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

Michael Jackson

#2. I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

Chelsea Handler

#3. Do you think you're special, Perry?" he asked seriously.
I winced. "A little bit. Maybe more in the Special Olympics kind of way.

Karina Halle

#4. I bowled a 129. It's like- It was like the Special Olympics.

Barack Obama

#5. Are you absolutely sure you want to do this? Seems like maybe it would make more sense to call in a SWAT team or Special Forces." "That won't work, isn't Special Forces where everyone gets a hug?" Charlie called. "That's the Special Olympics," Rivera said over his shoulder.

Christopher Moore

#6. It took many months in court, but the tabloid eventually published a total retraction and paid substantial damages in an out-of-court settlement. The money went to the Special Olympics in Great Britain.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#7. Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

Penn Jillette

#8. Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Paul Bloom

#9. You know, I've occasionally tried to watch other shows besides Scrubs, but comparing them is a bit like me competing in the special Olympics. Obviously I would win without contest, but the point is that they are trying their best.

Zach Braff

#10. I'd have to say I'm pretty adventurous. I just went to Shanghai for the Special Olympics and I tried dim sum. I'd never really had it before and some of it looked pretty scary, but I tried it anyway. My philosophy is, you're not going to know if you like it until you try it.

Brenda Song

#11. In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

Alice Hoffman

#12. As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

Tom Peters

#13. Path of light, path of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Maria Shriver

#15. In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

Martin Seligman

#16. The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

Yani Tseng

#18. The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

Robert Kiyosaki

#19. It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

David Rudisha

#20. The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

Sergei Bubka

#21. I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

Joe Flacco

#22. Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Flannery O'Connor

#23. The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

David Rudisha

#24. I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

Joyce Banda

#25. I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

Lauren Potter

#26. The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Tom Stoppard

#27. I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

Betty Smith

#28. For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed ... these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.

Ezekiel Hopkins

#29. No, no. I have been practicing ... I bowled a 129. It's like
it was like Special Olympics, or something."
making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009

Barack Obama

#30. If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible.

Jill Douglas

#31. She tried to slide it back to proper true, but couldn't see the shape of it and couldn't tell the way of things and if it was a place where it was right.

Patrick Rothfuss

#32. To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

Paula Radcliffe

#33. To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Walter Benjamin

#34. Absence diminishes minor passions and inflames great ones, as the wind douses a candle and fans a fire. La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 OBSERVANCE

Robert Greene

#35. From the very start in 1969, I wanted to be a part of helping our Special Olympics athletes succeed. I wanted to be on Eunice Shirver's team as another set of eyes, another set of hands and a heart working to be there for them, finding a way to help them be the best they can be.

Rafer Johnson

#36. It was like - It was like Special Olympics or something.

Barack Obama

#37. People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Lou Reed