Alexander Ovechkin Quotes

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.

Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts.

It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.

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

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

It is an honor to represent my country in the Olympics.

The Olympic Games and the World Championships will be my big goals.

The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

If you are in your sport for your country, you should be able to go to the Olympic Games and represent your sport for your country bringing people together in the interests of sport. It's a fantastic Olympic ideal, and I uphold it as much as I can.

Team U.S.A. is awesome.

To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.

The Olympics are a completely different beast. It's the most magical moment of your career.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

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 benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

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

I have always loved the Summer Olympics.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.