Famous Quotes & Sayings

At Athens we came up with the idea of using a single graphics folder per day. We have folders for each day, one per day for the 10 days leading up to the games and one folder for each of the 17 days of the games. This means everyone, including all the audio guys, knows where to drop their work.

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.

It really does help. Games like Athens are important for us to play.

It's nothing to eat in one county, go to school in Athens and live in another county.

For Athens and Boston, I had really prepared for tough conditions, whereas here you can just prepare to run the marathon at your pace,

Paula Radcliffe

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

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

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.

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.

Rita Mae Brown

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

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.

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,

It's due to general judging issues that remain unresolved since the Athens Olympics.

David Greene

It's something that would kind of keep me in touch with Athens, ... I met so many people there, and Athens has been so good to me. So it's good to have something like that so when you come back, it's a good excuse to go to Athens.

Everybody is talking about Joe T like he's a true freshman coming in straight out of Athens Academy. He's probably going to be the most well-prepared quarterback in the history of Georgia football.

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

Asafa Powell

I felt that I am not yet ready and that I would not post a good time. It is frustrating to not be able to run. Because I knew after my performance in Athens that I could have pushed the world record in this season even further.

Paul Hamm

I definitely have very fond memories of Athens for the most part. Just remembering the times spent with the team in the village and everybody working for that goal of the team medal. And also my individual performances, I remember those very fondly as well just because they're some of the greatest accomplishments I've had in my life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The law in Athens is true in Rome

Shan Sa

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Chris Hoy

The crowd was unbelievable. We're in Athens and yet half the stadium seemed crammed with British,