I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

quote by Dick Fosbury
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The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

quote by Pierre de Coubertin
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I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

quote by Marion Jones
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I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

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The Marlboro Olympics

We all know of the Olympics
For athletes who are fit
What if we organised new games
And changed the rules a bit?

The tournament - its now unfair
Only the best compete
And all those who're less able
Could never win a heat.

So let our new rules equalise
The young 'n old and slow 'n fast
And let's introduce some new sports
In which the fittest may come last.

We will all compete on equal terms
In worldwide competition
No - this is not an empty dream
But a new Olympic vision.

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poem by David Keig
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We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

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My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

quote by Mark Spitz
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

quote by Mary Lou Retton
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There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

quote by Shannon Miller
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Olympic Dreams

Dream on Boyo,
Dream on.

Why are you
Here writin'

When the Olympics
Is on?

poem by Harriet James
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

quote by Olga Korbut
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A Whispered Rant in Disguise

If the definition of poetry is
that it touches the heart
then the Olympic Games,
all the arts
and other more intimate matters
are poetry

which I believe the Greeks
would nod assent to

and Baron Coubertin's declaration
relaunching the Olympic Games
(though this time with clothes on, ah well) and
somewhat forgotten by the media
that it's not the winning
but the taking part
would apply to all
the above activities

which is OK by me

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poem by Michael Shepherd
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Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

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

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Bid For Exclusive Olympic Coverage

a corporate news agency which shall not be named
bid for exclusive Olympic coverage purchased
games exclusive rights from an equally greedy Olympic

committee then stole a global athletic dream
of premium competitive competition
sliced diced sold coverage to its own networks

to highest secondary bidders for maximum
revenue profit reducing Olympic dynamic
motion into pathetic still photographs on most...

news channels for viewer poor who did not
sign up for elite audience viewing dreams
have been sold rendered a superbowl of pin

up stars to entertain a box office ticketed
audience Heralded Age of Ticketed Sold
Simplistic Paid Up Coverage Purchased...

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.

quote by Alberto Juantorena
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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

quote by Sugar Ray Leonard
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We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

quote by Esther Williams
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I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak.

quote by Mark Roberts
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

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