Host City Quotes

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

Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago.

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

The Olympics have been an amazing part of Los Angeles' history. In many ways in 1932, they put us on the map when people didn't even know where Los Angeles was. In 1984, they were the first profitable Olympics of the modern era.

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

Each Olympics is different.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

For the party, the Beijing Games are the biggest political happening of 2008. Everything revolves around them. This will be a huge celebration for the President Hu Jintao and the Premier Wen Jiabao.

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

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.

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

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

London 2012 was just fantastic.

The international game has changed for bidding cities.

There is Rio in 2016, but it won't be the same as going to London and hearing 24,000 people - nearly all British - cheering, stamping their feet, and screaming your name.

WrestleMania is a week-long series of events, and the logistics of executing that week along with the week leading into it and the week after it are extraordinarily difficult in our own back yard.

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.