Right now, I'm gong to take two more runs, enjoy the Olympics and then decide. But the next Olympics, it's home track, basically.

Christian Niccum

An oyster shell opened up after the 2002 Olympics.

Larry Bloom

The Olympics and medaling have been a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

Gretchen Bleiler

The entire market in the Asia/Pacific region is growing well, but China is extremely strong, largely because of the Beijing Olympics build-up.

Greg Buzek

I said, 'Please, you don't have to offer me a million bucks. I want to do this cause it's right for the Olympics,'.

Richard Pound

This is an incredible buzz. I rate this with coming down the finishing straight at the Olympics Games (where he has run in two marathons). There were just that many people, making that much noise.

Jonathan Wyatt

We're delighted to be in the semifinal round. This is what it's all about, ... They're very focused and they've worked very hard, and now they're only 90 minutes away from going to the Olympics, and that's the only thing my team has come here for.

Glenn Myernick

I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been a swimmer, but when I saw rowing, I said, 'That's it.'

Claire Gilbert

At the end of the day, we've got the Olympics. After you've gone to inline worlds, you've reached the top of that sport. What do you have to look forward to after that?

Joey Cheek

That's life and you can't change anything, you know. We can't decide. If this is the rules, we can't do something. She's pretty young. I think the next Olympics will be for her.

Irina Slutskaya

Just like cities that go berserk to host the Olympics, you'll have people coming here from all over the country. They'll be spending money.

Stuart Anderson

I feel I'm really focused on the Olympics. [The selection process] is over and I'm looking [toward the] next competition.

Fumie Suguri

These people work hard to get to the Olympics at all costs. And I always ask the girls: When they hear that Olympic music or the national anthem, does it rev them up? Does it make the hair on the back of their neck stand up?

Friend Weiler

It would be pretty weird if I didn't have Olympics in my life, I enjoy it so much.

Heather O'brien

I want to go to the Olympics and play hockey.

Britani Dunbar

We're constantly trying to get the 18- to 34-year-old attachment to the Olympics.

Vince Manze

It'll be awesome. It'll be bigger than the Olympics, because of the quality of the competition.

Jason Cook

We didn't prepare for this competition, we were preparing for the Olympics.

Samaresh Jung

They're telling me I'm not going to the Olympics because they did an investigation based on those complaints. We want to know what those complaints are. That's what we're asking for. We're entitled to those before we can proceed.

Tim Nardiello

It depends on a lot of things: the snow, weather, how my body is feeling, and whether I need it to win a competition. But if I really need to take a huge risk and it's the Olympics, you know I'll be going for it.

Jeret Peterson

I still have a little pain in the knee from the Olympics. So we have not been able to train much.

Zhang Dan

Eventually, I'd like to make it to the Olympic Trials in 2008. I'd just like to make it to the trials at least. If I don't make the Olympics, I'd definitely like to make it in 2012. But right now, I'm just focusing on Saturday.

Jordan Hasay

When I was 6 years old, I was watching Eric Heiden at the 1980 Olympics. My dad was watching it on TV and I just thought it looked really cool.

Ryan Shimabukuro

Curling is getting a little bit more popular because of the Olympics. We want to be able to promote the sport because it's not very well known.

Cassie Johnson

We do have a stacked team, and we did at the last Olympics as well. I think we'll bring home more than one medal as a team.

Jeret Peterson

I just kind of felt the same standing up there. It's like, ?Here we go again, another run on the pipe ? but at the Olympics.' I just felt super positive.

Hannah Teter

The committee felt Michelle will probably have a better chance for a medal at the Olympics.

Bob Horen

We've been as busy or busier than the Christmas holidays. There's the Super Bowl, and right after it is the Olympics, and then there's March Madness.

Greg Nelson

I think Canada is too far ahead for these Olympics. But it gives our girls a chance to catch up for the next Games.

Mats Naslund

I didn't get a chance to play in the NHL. This is my Stanley Cup -- the Olympics.

Jason Cirone

We ought to be very concerned about this, that Beijing's adherence to the rule of law should apply to the 2008 Olympics, ... I think that the Olympic committee ought to monitor Beijing very closely on the issue.

John Tkacik

We definitely saw the parallels between girls working in a man's world. And the idea of making the Olympics appeal to a younger generation.

Brett Anderson

Today, we are not good enough. We are not disappointed in our Olympics. We are disappointed in today's race.

Halvard Hanevold

We really try to focus on the sponsorships that we've invested in, and this year we have invested heavily in the Olympics.

Karen Jones

I always wanted to be a driver because I wanted more control. I hated being a brakeman because you have no control. I'm extremely excited about going to the Olympics.

Shauna Rohbock

The U.S. could win eight or even nine medals in snowboarding alone. It's hip. It's youthful. There are a lot of activities in the Winter Olympics that don't appeal to the younger demographic.

Tracy Anderson

This is the greatest Olympics ever for us.

Hans Pum

That was an incredible jump in performance for a race that she doesn't do that often. Maybe we made a mistake and she should have skated the 500 at the Olympics - just joking.

Neal Marshall

I'll try to run in an Olympics again as long as I continue with my career, rather than set a new goal for each year.

Aiko Uemura

The medal is the icing on the cake. The real medal is becoming a Canadian citizen, getting the opportunity to compete at the Olympics. That's the gold medal.

Lascelles Brown

[Chang is looking forward to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He served as a Goodwill Ambassador for China, helping the nation get the bid.] It's very exciting, ... It will be great for China to show the world what it can do.

Michael Chang

Usually, the Olympics beat anything thrown against it — combined.

Andy Donchin

It's not a sport until it's in the Olympics.

Rolf Wilson

To come seventh at the Olympics after a year of sitting on the couch isn't horrible. But I wanted to win.

Mike Ireland

It was like an accident. It can't be helped when you finish a race that way. I've already got this strong feeling of avenging this disappointment in the next Olympics.

Akira Sasaki

I'm glad that I'm going to the Olympics but I'm disappointed with the result this time at the national championships. I know I have to try much harder before skating in Turin.

Miki Ando

I felt like I'd had lots of chances during the Olympics, but I guess I was lucky that (the goal) came in the bronze-medal game.

Martin Erat

The 2008 Beijing Olympics is a dream come true for every Chinese. I hope I can play as a national member.

Wang Zhizhi

It would be a great achievement. Maybe for the Olympics this will be the last one.

Hannu Manninen

We want to go -- there's no training in New Zealand to be able to reach our goal of a top 20 at the next Olympics.

Lisa Daniels

The greater concern is the presence of anti-global leaders who may use the international spotlight on the Olympics as an opportunity to cause destruction.

Roger Cressey

It bothers me a little. Mostly that so much more emphasis gets put on the Olympics.

Jeremy Wotherspoon

The win in flying and the victory in Japan will give me a lot of confidence in the Olympics.

Roar Ljoekelsoey

The work's done, you turn up on the night and do your best - I'm as well prepared if not better prepared than I was before the Athens Olympics.

Chris Hoy

That is what the Special Olympics does. It encourages people with disabilities to overcome their odds.

Aaron Brooks

It's not very often parents like us can sit back on the sidelines. The Special Olympics allow us to do that.

Maria Sanchez

If we are to learn from these mistakes in time for the Olympics, we must have some answers from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport about why this has gone so very wrong.

Hugo Swire

In Los Angeles (site of the 1984 Olympics), it worked very well.

Anita Defrantz

It's hard to know what to feel. As a kid you dream about Olympics, Olympics, your whole life. Now that we've actually won an Olympic gold medal it's hard to put it into words.

Jamie Korab

The World Cup is sort of what we do. The Olympics are sort of a bonus.

Julia Mancuso

In the Caribbean, this is like another Olympics, seeing it is just the US and France out.

Marc Burns

I can't believe that can happen at the Olympics. We have our own driver that moves our equipment when we are in Europe. We have as much control as possible.

Terje Langli

The Olympics and Turin will be very well equipped with ground forces, air-space security and border security.

Joe Peters

Just to have the opportunity to go back to the Olympics and have another shot at a medal is a dream come true.

Bret Hedican

The Olympics are one of the top television events.

Brad Adgate

There's a lot at stake for the Winter Olympics now.

Roland Rust

The top five girls at the meet are training for the Olympics and its fun to compete against them and to know that you can get in top ten with them.

Gretchen Plamondon

I think the older you get, the more you realize how important those medals are. With each Olympics you watch, you have to appreciate how great those athletes are.

Brian Orser

The National Games is a warm-up for the 2008 Olympics. A good result at the 2008 Olympics is our ultimate goal.

Gao Zhidan

It really breaks my heart to see it, because I know he's the best skater in the world in my eyes. But the Olympics are not over.

Allison Baver

It is not the last opportunity to compete against him. There are the Europeans and then the Olympics. I will have time to beat him.

Stephane Lambiel

The judges have been very carefully selected for these Olympics. Everybody knows the eyes of the world will be on them.

Gayle Mcclelland

Of course we'll always refer to the Olympics. These are world-class facilities that we will continue to market.

Tracie Cayford

The World Cup is one of the three most important athletics tournaments only after the Olympics and the world championships. And Athens is Liu's lucky place, so we will try our best to get a good result.

Sun Haiping

There's always the 2010 Olympics.

Laurel Shanley

If this incident had taken place during the Olympics, the chances of it being shot down would have been extremely high.

Giorgos Voulgarakis

It is China's largest-ever team to a winter Olympics since we made debut in the winter games in 1980.

Xiao Tian

Much of the news we read is bleak...but your action embodied the spirit of the Olympics.

Richard Page

We looked at the popularity of Roots in the last Olympics and thought this was something to get into.

Carolyn Brookter

He's got five wins. I was thinking that if he wins the next two slaloms, I wouldn't like to be him going into the Olympics. I'd like to be me. It's a lot of pressure for him at home in Italy.

Kalle Palander

It's good to be the national champion, but the only focus I had this season was the Olympics.

Steve Omischl

The single most important thing that will come out of [the Olympics presence] is the message of competing on a daily basis and delivering greater customer service with our customers.

Karen Jones

I dare not think so much. What I need to do is to improve step by step, and I will think over the Olympics when 2008 comes.

Yang Jieqiao

To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.

Joe Sakic

The Olympics aren't as daunting as people think they are.

Preston Beckman

The experience itself was amazing, ... To realize you're competing in the Olympics, I tried not to let the magnitude of it sink in.

Brandon Hill

All of us who were (at the Olympics) last time and had success don't want to go back to where it was before.

Rusty Smith

We decided, in dedication of the Olympics, to ski down the hill with a torch and the American flag. Then we added three states around us, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We added some of the instructors.

Tony Paterno

I'm really happy we are now consistently in the hunt for a podium spot. We only have a couple of races before the Olympics so it is time to get things in gear.

Pierre Lueders

I think we bring an element of fun to the Olympics.

Maelle Ricker

Now for the first time in my life, I see Israel really interested in figure skating, not only ice dancing but the Winter Olympics.

Roman Zaretski

I pace myself. I don't strain. After all, it's not the Olympics. If I get tired, I sit down. The continuous rotation appeals to me to no end.

John Pullo

This means that the Olympic law holds true: the law that the guy who wins the Olympics is always someone unexpected.

Fritz Strobl

It's the Olympics and it's special, so I had to drive special.

Andre Lange

You can't separate the two. Brian is very much linked with the Olympics.

Terry Ludwick

This time could be more difficult. Last time, the travel was not that bad. The time change was not an issue. It felt like just a continuation for the NHL season. This time will be different because the Olympics are so far away.

Pavel Kubina

With all the measures we are preparing, I am very confident the air quality will be high during the Olympics. It will not be a problem at all.

Wang Dawei

Now my Olympics can begin. I have this anger in me and I want to show them all.

Evi Sachenbacher

I really wanted to go to the Olympics, but everyone wanted me to model for them, so I said what the hell, why not!

Estella Warren

You could walk across the street and get hurt and not go to the Olympics. Why not do what you love?

Erin Simmons

I'm extremely disappointed. Ever since I was a young kid, I've been preparing for the Olympics.

Erik Guay

The anarchists see in the Olympics an important media sound-box and could carry out initiatives that are dangerous for public order and security.

Enzo Bianco

I watched the last Olympics from a wheelchair. There was no question I would come back.

Emily Cook

I didn't really realize all I was getting into. I'm pretty young for being in the Olympics in the first place. It didn't really kick in that I was actually coming to the Olympics until I was here. So there was a lot of pressure.

Elena Hight

Last year it was on me. With the excitement from the Olympics, I had them burned out by November. This season, they've all been trying very hard and listening very well. Our only mistake this season would be for me to work them too hard.

Eddie Reese

I'm a believer in the Olympics and I think it's good for the NHL to participate in them. Having said that, the people who participate should be the ones who are absolutely healthy.

Ed Snider

I never gave up my dream to come to the Olympics. We want to do our best. We are looking for a perfect performance. It doesn't matter which medal we get.

Zhao Hongbo

Whatever the situation, the main thing is getting the injury right. Although the World Championships are important, they are not as important as the Olympics.

Zhang Mingji