Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

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They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

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Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

classic quote by Richard Nixon
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And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

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The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

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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.

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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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Another Olympic Games For The Wealthy Only

Another Olympic games for the wealthy only doesn't life seem so unfair
In the Athens Olympic Stadium there won't be many there
Who live on a low income or struggle to get by on welfare
And who should win the medals why should I even care?

In life only the so called losers are those that interest me
The people who to circumstance must live in poverty
They won't be at the Olympics for to cheer their heroes on
Or to sigh in disappointment with hopes of a medal gone.

The Olympics ought to be re-named as the Games of Nationalistic Pride
And Athens 04 the destination of millionaires Worldwide
Waving their National flags and banners their patriotism on display
And that money speaks all languages is very relevant to today.

Another Olympic games for the wealthy only in a World of so much poverty
Just a vulgar show of wealth and Nationalistic pride at the opening and closing ceremony
And the have nots must feel content for to watch it on the t v
And which Nation's athletes are the most successful such things won't be worrying me.

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For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

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I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

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The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.

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Olympic Platinum

If I could reach to the sky and touch it for my country
Get some on my finger and take in its smell
The smell of victory land of the free Olympic dream
My Olympic dream
My promotion scheme
How hard can it be
How high can I jump
How high can I throw
How high can I run
How high can I hold my breath and stay underwater
and wave my legs around in perfect unison with my partner who really doesn't understand me
For my Olympic dream
I'll be like Dwight Stone
I'll be like Bruce Jenner
I'll be like that girl who trained all her life as a distance runner and then tripped with a quarter mile to go
But I I will get up and I will run
I will run with the Georgia peach breeze and I will win
I will win my Olympic dream
The gold's just not good enough
And I don't even think of the bronze

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I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

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My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

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The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

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I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

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The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

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