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OLYMPICS SPORTS QUOTES

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[ Includes Track and Field Sports ]

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Charles Barkley, American basket ball player quotes:

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

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Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics:

And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.

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Eamonn Coghlan, Irish athlete, 3-time winner of Olympics:

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

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Jesse Owens, African-American athlete, 1936 Summer Olympics:

-- A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

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Mia Hamm, American football player, 2004 Summer Olympics:

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

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Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete, 1948 Summer Olympics:

All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

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Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics:

[on the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona] Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.

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Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete, 2000 Summer Olympics:

I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.

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Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete, 1988 Summer Olympics:

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening any more.

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Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics:

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the [1992] Olympics. I have to win or die.

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Mark Spitz, American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics:

[On winning seven gold medals] I swam my brains out.

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Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics:

[on the 3000m world record] I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

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Sebastian Coe, 2-time winner of Olympics:

[after losing the 800m final in 1980] To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

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