Everything is in place to have a peaceful Games.

Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.

In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.