MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES from the OLYMPIANS

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2. Slide 2:“The joy of effort is more important than the thrill of victory.” -Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement (1894)
3. Slide 3:\"We love playing, we love winning. When you get the emotions of the Olympics going on, it's something special and you can't really describe it.” - Nathan Robertson, Great Britain's badminton player
4. Slide 4: “It’s tough. I’ve never seen anything like this. You’re watching batting practice in the outfield and you can’t see the ball because it’s the same color as the sky.” -Chris Reitsma, Canadian baseball pitcher, on practice in Beijing
5. Slide 5:\"It is about competition, but it's also about being an Olympian in life.\" -Eli Wolff, Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern U