Quotes about the Winter Olympics include but are not limited to:

1. Mountains do not meet, but people do. ——Proverb

2. The important thing in life is not the victory, but the battle. ——Coubertin

3. There is no more beautiful clothes in the world than strong muscles and fresh skin. ——Mayakovsky

4. There is no victory, holding on means everything. ——Rilke

5. When we don’t know how long this dark tunnel will take, we hope that the Olympic flame can become a bright light at the end of the tunnel.

——Olympic Committee President Bach