Jill Lepore Quotes

I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.

The world is filled with great sporting events.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport.

I love the Olympics. Something about the Olympics just makes everything competitive.

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world!

Let's say something like Olympics is happening, I will definitely watch because that is something which is live after so many months. I think sports will definitely get people to watch.

In general, I enjoy watching different sport tournaments and competitions.

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.

To be in the national team is wonderful in it's own right. For me, playing against Brazil or Venezuela is the same.

Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion.

With sport, we should sit back, enjoy. It's awesome to watch.

When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.