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on gold medals

"If you're not enough without it, you're not enough with it."
- Cool Runnings

no nerves

"I think about nothing. I've done all the training, so there's nothing left to do but execute."
- Michael Phelps on the starting block

Train above the neck too

"For champions, it's 70% mental and 30% physical."
- Michael Johnson

at some point it crosses over

"Having a race to see who can walk the fastest is like having a contest to see who can whisper the loudest."
- Bob Costas on speed-walking at the Rio Olympics

denied

"You're not thinking. You're reacting."
- Carey Price goalie for the Montreal Canadiens

symbol of the pure Aryan race

Myron's 5th century BC Discobolus (Discuss Thrower) was bought by the Nazis for a record breaking five million lire as at least Adolph Hitler believed Germans were direct Greek decedents.

Image source here.

Please advise if you know the current value of 1938 lira.

"Let me be used how the Lord sees fit."
- Olympic Gold Medalist Allyson Felix

A piece on what else the London Olympics would have bought, here.

halfpipe

"I don't have the concentration to work more than one or two hours a day."

- Vancouver Olympic Snowboard Gold Medalist Shaun White [born 1986]

observer

Ben Johnson, Seoul Olympics, 1988. Captured by the father of Canadian photojournalism Ted Grant.

"If you can see it you can shoot it."

An earlier reference to photography here.

8 Hours Per Day

41-year-old Olympic swimmer Dora Torres attributes her success to Resistance Stretching.