Summer Olympic Quotes

#1. My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race. - John Stephen Akhwari, 1968 Summer Olympic

John Stephen Akhwari

#2. I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud. (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

George Michael

#3. No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.

Summer Sanders

#4. If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes ... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.

Summer Sanders

#5. Hot pink looks cute on only janet which is MEEEEEEE!!!

Jeff Kinney

#6. I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

Colin Angle

#7. Whose heart would not rejoice in its inmost core at hearing these things?

Martin Luther

#8. Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

Summer Sanders

#9. When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

Lil' Kim

#10. In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.

Norm Dicks

#11. So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.

Norm Dicks

#12. Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is ... well, an umpire.

Ron Luciano

#13. I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Don Marquis

#14. I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#15. Make sure you and your family have passports.

Timothy Snyder

#16. I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

Ban Ki-moon

#17. Always put your best foot forward, because you never know where your next step may lead you.

Stephan Labossiere

#18. That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

Alexander Calder

#19. A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.

Alysia Reiner