The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
Natalie Coughlin
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SUMMER SANDERS When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.
ERIC SHANTEAU I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Win...
CINDY KLASSEN The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.
RUSSELL MARK The Olympic Games is the biggest occasion of my sports career.
MIKI ANDO I now have Youth Olympic, Olympic and European Games titles, which is a dream. I didn't fight th...
JADE JONES The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN He is an athlete who is really in the golden book of the history of the Olympic Games.
JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The figures demonstrate that worldwide interest in the Olympic Winter Games is high.
JACQUES ROGGE You've gotta love games like this. There was real pressure defense on both ends.
ASHLEY BERGGREN The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.
BILL TOOMEY There will never again be an official salad cream of the Olympic Games.
MICHAEL PAYNE I'm going to an Olympic Games, that's the bottom line!
CRAIG STEVENS This is my first Games and it's quite the experience, it's a little overwhelming.
ERINNE WILLOCK He (Leo) forced his fists to unclench. "Look, lady, we're not going all Hunger Games on each other. ...
RICK RIORDAN It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will re...
JEFF FENECH Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can ...
JACQUES ROGGE Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
SUZANNE COLLINS Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.
SUZANNE COLLINS I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, ...
SUZANNE COLLINS You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
SUZANNE COLLINS Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
SUZANNE COLLINS It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant
SUZANNE COLLINS Each day i wake and think at last this nightmare is over. But it never is.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss Everdeen, The Girl On Fire!
SUZANNE COLLINS Smiling is mostly about smiling more.
SUZANNE COLLINS And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.
SUZANNE COLLINS Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all t...
SUZANNE COLLINS The tenth National Games is important to the preparation of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and it w...
LIU PENG This is more important than the world championship and only slightly less (important) than the Olymp...
BASTIEN RIPOLL At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvemen...
JANE D. HULL I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone....
SUZANNE COLLINS For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are a...
AVERY BRUNDAGE I know that this is the greatest promotion besides the Olympic games that we can give to the country...
BELA KAROLYI It takes just a few thoughts of the people to know who they are actually, but only to a person who i...
ANUJ SOMANY Until we identity the real cause of an ailment or problem,finding the cure will only be a mirage.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think I should retire after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
IAN THORPE The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
YOHAN BLAKE And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does...
OLGA KORBUT Carnival is the feast of joy, freedom, and dreams?nothing better to close the great dream of the Oly...
DANIELE FINZI PASCA It was unbelievable for me to win against Canada at the Olympic Games.
AYUMI ONODERA There's a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games.
ERIC SHANTEAU You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda p...
NATALIE COUGHLIN I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several wor...
NATALIE COUGHLIN I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
NATALIE COUGHLIN I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
NATALIE COUGHLIN I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
NATALIE COUGHLIN When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but ...
NATALIE COUGHLIN I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
NATALIE COUGHLIN I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was...
NATALIE COUGHLIN I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
NATALIE COUGHLIN I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.
NATALIE COUGHLIN There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
NATALIE COUGHLIN I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.
NATALIE COUGHLIN There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the...
NATALIE COUGHLIN I remember, I think it was my first meet, I entered the 25 fly. I couldn't even get my arms out of t...
NATALIE COUGHLIN The year after the Olympics is always an interesting year. The Australians are getting better and be...
NATALIE COUGHLIN I don't know what Aaron is doing, but it's working. He works really hard and he enjoys the sport, wh...
NATALIE COUGHLIN They violated one of the basic principals of the Olympic Games. That politics play no part whatsoeve...
AVERY BRUNDAGE In an environment providing real-time information to media, any security incident, triggered with ma...
PATRICK ADIBA She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA With presitgious enterprises such as Tsingtao Beer to activelysponsor and support the Beijing 2008 ...
WANG WEI The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.
SIMONE BILES Olympic transformation nearly complete, ingredients for great Games in place
JEAN CLAUDE KILLY I'm not missing the Olympic Games for any reason. I don't care if there is any security or not,
TODD HAYS The Olympic Games are the biggest occasion of my sporting career. If there is a chance, I'll try and...
MIKI ANDO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individ...
OSCAR PISTORIUS This is the Olympic Games and this is Italy. I took all my strength in my body and I did it.
ENRICO FABRIS When the athletes come to the Olympic Games, it is rarely about the muscles anymore. It is all about...
CHRISTINE BRENNAN Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games.
CASEY EASTHAM He feels the pressure real and pressure imagined,
JOHN MADDEN We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.
SUZANNE COLLINS My love for these books, at its purest, is not really about Peeta or anything silly and girly. I lov...
ROXANNE GAY Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.
SUZANNE COLLINS Crying is not an option.
SUZANNE COLLINS It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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NATALIE MERCHANT I've raised my daughter with no television.
NATALIE MERCHANT It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
NATALIE MERCHANT I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
NATALIE MERCHANT I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to delib...
NATALIE MERCHANT I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself int...
NATALIE MERCHANT I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
NATALIE MERCHANT I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mas...
NATALIE MERCHANT Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index...
NATALIE MERCHANT It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, an...
NATALIE MERCHANT I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
NATALIE MERCHANT The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-close...
NATALIE MERCHANT I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
NATALIE MERCHANT My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i...
NATALIE MERCHANT I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it'...
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