Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Rogge

This successful transition... was key to the Sydney, Salt Lake City (Winter Olympics) and Athens Games. We know our Chinese friends will succeed in this transition too.

We found out when the University of Georgia at Athens called and told us that they wanted to come and visit to see what we do because we were No. 1.

Usually 4A teams do not have 11 (good) players, but Athens does and came up with the plays it need. I was very impressed with them. I think we can do better, but we got beat by a good team.

We want to make these people feel like Athens is their home.

Leisel Jones

Life has changed dramatically for me since the 2004 Athens Olympics. With every meet I'm learning more. I have no real pressure on me since I have both breaststroke (100m/200m) world records.

Since I've finished Athens and then of course worlds in L.A. (where she won gold in the 3000 metre pursuit) this year was a terrific result for me. I've never represented Australia at commonwealth games it's going to be huge and I'm hoping to ride track and road.

Suzanne Collins

If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.

Yanis Varoufakis

I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.

Yanis Varoufakis

For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

One lesson from Athens was that we routed no video between an Avid edit session and a graphics session.

One year after the Athens Olympic Games and the European football championship, the Greek basketball team has climbed to the highest peak of Europe once again,

Craig Stevens

I am so immensely proud to be representing my country at the Athens Olympic Games, that's more than enough for me.

I can't even begin to tell you. I've raced in Athens and other championships but I've never been quite as emotional as tonight.

Tom Jackson

Some of those families are here in Athens trying to live with the students.

Tiesto

I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it's such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world's watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.

Yasser Arafat

We had met. I had met Shimon Peres in Cairo, in Lisbon before that, before that my colleagues met him in Athens with the participation of the European Union's Javier Solana and we have no objection to meeting him at any time.

You'll be able to come out of Athens Street turning left or south on 365 and be able to have a lane to climb and get up to speed in.

We promote Athens as the midway stop in the interstate, and these places are giving people reasons to stop.

Jacques Rogge

We had problems in Athens where people didn't know anything about softball or baseball or fencing. But I don't worry about Vancouver at all.

We live here; we know how to get around town. Many of these people didn't even know Athens County existed two weeks ago.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The law in Athens is true in Rome

There was a general observation in Athens that things needed to be improved.

Pretty much the defensive pressure of Athens got to us. We had a real difficult time getting into our offensive set. Give credit to Athens, they really did a good job defensively as a team.

Don Williams

Sales are slower for Athens than they were for Sydney.

Meb Keflezighi

A lot of people compare Athens and Boston. Athens was very smooth for me. It's a challenging course and I like challenges.

Hamish Carter

It's 12 months and two days since the Athens race and it's a great feeling to know that you can win again,

John Thompson

Some didn't get the job they wanted. Some got a job offered to them, but it wasn't within the driving distance they wanted to. Because of my background, I had people calling me from Cleveland, Chattanooga, Athens and down the I-75 corridor because of the needs they had at their school. But I just didn't want to leave.

Sonya Thomas put on one of the great athletic performances of the year. It was a triumph on par with the great feats witnessed in Athens just weeks ago, and it's going to take an extraordinary effort for her record to be broken.

That's like Larry Brown being cited before Congress for only bringing home a bronze from the Athens Olympics. Absurd.

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.

Chris Hoy

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.

Larry Bird

The right guy at the right time after Athens and the World Championships, ... This is the type of guy we need. After 2004 we needed a wake up call and we got ours.

Otto Rehhagel

What happened here is that the Greek team wrote soccer history. I hope this reverberates in Greece. I hope when we get into Athens on Monday, there will be incredible scenes.