OLYMPICS SPORTS QUOTES
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Quotes from the The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.
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QUOTATION: Why me? Why, why, why?
ATTRIBUTION: Nancy Kerrigan (b. 1969), U.S. champion ice skater. U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan (January 6, 1994).
***After her leg was clubbed, shortly before the 1994 Winter Olympics.
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QUOTATION: I spend so many times for skating, and I gave up so many hobbies for this ... the Olympics are four years in time. And I am old.
ATTRIBUTION: Ye Qiaobo (b. 1965), Chinese ice skater. As quoted in Time magazine, p. 50 (February 24, 1992).
***The first Chinese athlete ever to win a Winter Olympics medal, Qiaobo had just won two silvers and, in tears, expressed her disappointment and frustration at not winning a gold. At the next Olympics, she would be thirty-one, perhaps too old to compete.
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QUOTATION: And now in one hour’s time I’ll be out there again. I’ll raise my eyes and look down that corridor four feet wide with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.
ATTRIBUTION: Colin Welland (b. 1934), British screenwriter. Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), Chariots of Fire, before running in the Olympics (1981).
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