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Paris Olympic Games 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Olympic games quotes, aphorisms and ideas by great authors and world athletes by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games website.<\/a>\u00a0The Olympic Winter Games return to Europe, the birthplace of Alpine skiing, encompassing a large portion of Italy\u2019s breathtaking mountains and covering an area of 22,000 square kilometres. From 6 to 22 February 2026, around 2,900 athletes from over 90 National Olympic Committees will compete in 116 events on ice and snow, in eight sports and 16 disciplines.\u00a0The 2026 Olympic Winter Games will take place from 6 to 22 February, while the 2026 Paralympic Games will take place from 6 to 15 March.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Olimpiadi invernali Milano Cortina 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you want to know more about the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games visit its website.<\/a> Follow the worlds top athletes as they go for gold in France (Jul 26-Aug 11, 2024). Paralympic Games \u2013 Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 8 September.<\/span><\/p>\n

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That\u2019s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.<\/span>
\nJessica Park<\/span><\/p>\n

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on.\u00a0 In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nMichael Ventre
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.<\/span>
\nPierre de Coubertin<\/span><\/p>\n

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver.\u00a0 Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nRichard Nixon<\/span><\/p>\n

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.<\/span>
\nDawn Fraser<\/span><\/p>\n

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.<\/span>
\nBob Richards<\/span><\/p>\n

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nDave Beard<\/span><\/p>\n

The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.<\/span>
\nPeggy Fleming<\/span><\/p>\n

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that’s wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nJohn Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.<\/span>
\nJesse Owens<\/span><\/p>\n

When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.<\/span>
\nFlorence Griffith Joyner<\/span><\/p>\n

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.<\/span>
\nPierre de Coubertin<\/span><\/p>\n

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the Winter Olympics.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nMarvin Olasky<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.<\/span>
\nHerb Elliott<\/span><\/p>\n

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A lo largo de los a\u00f1os he aprendido mucho del deporte, he vivido momentos muy importantes para m\u00ed que me han marcado y me han hecho madurar.<\/span>
\nOna Carbonell<\/span><\/p>\n

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.<\/span>
\nMary Lou Retton<\/span><\/p>\n

There can be distractions, but if you’re isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.<\/span>
\nMary Lou Retton<\/span><\/p>\n

It never gets tiring coming to Paralympic Games and crossing the line first. It is like a fairytale that just doesn’t seem to end, each time I come out.<\/span>
\nJason Smyth<\/span><\/p>\n

My dream was to win the World Championships and I did it. So I said my next dream was to win the Paralympics. So what’s my next dream? It is sleeping.<\/span>
\nDaniel Martins<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all humans, we spend almost all our career together so when a teammate suffers, I suffer too.<\/span>
\nOmara Durand<\/span><\/p>\n

The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline.<\/span>
\nSunday Adelaja<\/span><\/p>\n

It was not the money that was my main motive; it was the challenge and the thrill where I got my kicks. Armed robbery to me was like a sport. To take on an armored vehicle with two armed security guards – it was like an athlete attending the Olympic Games.<\/span>
\nDrexel Deal<\/span><\/p>\n

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWill Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

Estoy convencida de que estamos aqu\u00ed para retarnos d\u00eda a d\u00eda a hacer grandes cosas. Porque s\u00f3lo atrevi\u00e9ndonos a luchar para conseguir nuestros sue\u00f1os podremos hacerlos realidad.<\/span>
\nOna Carbonell<\/span><\/p>\n

Arguing is the Olympics of talking<\/span>
\nStewart Stafford<\/span><\/p>\n

Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics.\u00a0 Okay, we can swing with that.\u00a0 But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned.\u00a0 Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you.\u00a0 That’s pretty damn good.\u00a0 Unless someone’s dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nEddie Izzard<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a good trick:\u00a0 Get a job as a judge at the Olympics.\u00a0 Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn’t see it and go, “Okay, is everybody ready to start now?”\u00a0 <\/span>
\nJack Handey<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can also read:<\/span><\/p>\n

The History of Olympic Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Paris 2024 Olympic Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Paralympic Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Great Sports Quotes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sports News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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