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I want to be the European, Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion. I want the full set.
Nicola Adams
Champion
World
Want
Commonwealth
Full
European
World Champion
Olympic
Set
Everybody wants that spot: everybody wants to beat Nicola Adams. Everybody wants to be the Olympic champion; everybody wants to beat the Olympic champion. It's made me train that much harder and stay that much more focused. I guess, in a way, I've got them to thank for keeping me motivated and focused on the job I need to do.
Nicola Adams
Me
Champion
Job
Made
Everybody
Guess
Way
Focused
Stay
More
Beat
Spot
Got
Motivated
Train
Thank
Wants
Them
Much
Harder
Keeping
Olympic
Need
The Olympics is still my greatest achievement... I have many belts, but there is only one Olympic gold.
Oleksandr Usyk
Achievement
Only
Greatest
Greatest Achievement
Still
Gold
Many
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Belts
Olympics
I'm very happy to fight on the same card with Vasyl Lomachenko and Oleksandr Gvozdyk. This is something we've been talking about since we were amateurs - to have three members of the 2012 Ukrainian Olympic team in the same event.
Oleksandr Usyk
Happy
Fight
Three
Ukrainian
Members
About
Something
Since
Talking
Amateur
Were
Been
Very
Same
Team
Event
Card
Olympic
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
Olga Korbut
Change
Strong
Remember
Somewhere
Before
Nineteen
Seventy
See
Total
Small
Gymnastics
Like
Supposed
Know
Very
May
Might
Skinny
Games
Olympic
Olympic Games
Two
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
Olga Korbut
Big
Nineteen
Like
Does
Go
Goal
Celebration
Sixty
Mean
Realized
Games
Four
Olympic
Olympic Games
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.
Olga Korbut
Good
Me
You
Three
Before
Nineteen
Months
Seventy
About
Knew
Almost
Know
Ready
Go
Been
Very
Just
Games
Team
Why
Olympic
Olympic Games
Two
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
Olga Korbut
Nineteen
Seventy
Became
Overnight
Going
Really
Games
Star
Olympic
Olympic Games
Two
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
Olga Korbut
World
Competition
Big
National
Before
Too
Like
Because
Ready
Been
Just
Games
European
World Championship
Compete
Championship
Olympic
Olympic Games
I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
Oscar Pistorius
Work
Time
Best
Good
Me
Post
Will
Before
Few
Stage
Final
Aiming
Everything
Best Time
Through
Weeks
Good Times
Put
Along
Well
Am
Times
Get
Personal
Behind
Maybe
Where
Biggest
Race
Them
Games
Team
Who
Helped
Preparations
Even
Now
Rounds
Here
Olympic
Olympic Games
Phenomenal
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
Oscar Pistorius
Fitness
Time
Will
Past
Speed
Ran
Months
Run
Constantly
Week
Over
Know
Times
Improving
African
Standard
Peak
Last
Olympic
Championships
Two
Olympics
Kurt Angle is an Olympic gold medalist, one of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time.
Paul Heyman
All-Time
Angle
Performers
Greatest
Kurt
Gold
Olympic
Olympic Gold
I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.
Paula Radcliffe
Myself
Good
Day
Key
Goals
Year
One Day
Possible
Some
Shape
Getting
Just
Marathon
Specific
Olympic
Set
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who carried out the marathon bombing, was a non-practicing Muslim who only became an Islamist militant once his dreams of becoming an Olympic boxer faded. At the time of the attack, he was unemployed.
Peter Bergen
Dreams
Time
Once
Carried
Out
Muslim
Brothers
Only
Attack
He
Faded
Became
Boxer
Becoming
His
Unemployed
Militant
Who
Marathon
Bombing
Olympic
Two
I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.
Picabo Street
Me
Everyone
Carry
Worthy
Hoping
Opening
Goal
Flag
Maybe
Ceremonies
Next
Chooses
Team
Olympic
Thinks
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.
Pierre de Coubertin
Beautiful
Culture
Strong
Other
Our
Aptly
Physical
Supplemented
Idea
Fair
Fair Play
Involves
Aesthetic
Cultivation
Hand
Mobility
Graceful
View
Play
Olympic
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
Pierre de Coubertin
History
Holding
Evoking
Means
Games
Olympic
Olympic Games
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
Pierre de Coubertin
Life
Great
Reality
World
Guide
Possibility
Gives
Idea
Ideal
Toward
Movement
Which
Olympic
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
Pierre de Coubertin
Property
Age
Neither
Spirit
Nor
Race
Olympic
One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Time
Try
Perspective
Country
Circumstance
Must
Given
Put
Catch
Been
Very
Get
Form
Quota
Little
Little Time
Things
Olympic
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
Rebecca Lobo
Nothing
Else
Winning
Like
Gold
Gold Medal
Medal
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Olympic Gold Medal
Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.
Richard Attias
Change
Vision
Adhere
City
Unsuccessful
Bid
Within
Source
Even
Olympic
I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting.
Richard M. Daley
People
Country
Community
Congress
Other
States
Out
Thousands
Thousands Of People
More
More And More
Join
Throughout
Exciting
Leaders
Reached
Force
Around
Task
Task Force
Gets
Movement
Mayors
Form
Businesspeople
United
United States
Olympic
To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.
Roy Hodgson
Day
You
Game
People
Community
Way
Frank
Atmosphere
Shield
Behaved
Stadium
After
Compare
Watched
Olympic
I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.
Rulon Gardner
People
Money
Think
Athletes
Olympic
America's seen me go from Olympic glory to 'Biggest Loser'. I want to go back to Olympic glory again. It's kind of the American way, rebuilding yourself and remodeling yourself and making yourself more of who you are.
Rulon Gardner
Me
You
Yourself
Seen
Back
Way
Kind
More
Glory
Making
Go
Loser
America
American
Want
Biggest
Again
American Way
Who
Rebuilding
Olympic
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