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I spent the rest of my career trying to redeem Brett Favre and make him proud. I hope I succeeded. – Brett Favre	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
And it's a very good party! – Sergio Soares	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was about an hour before it happened, I was already in the stadium, i wasn't expecting it. I know that when they did polls there were a lot of appeals for Vanderlei to light the cauldron. I gave interviews to Brazilian and foreign media, they had raised the idea abroad, but I never thought it was a possibility. I never thought I could be that person. – Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Man, they called me at the last minute to replace Pele. living this emotional experience was better than winning a medal. I was able to share this with the whole nation, I was representing every one of them. – Vanderlei Cordeiro	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I couldn't miss the (parade). That was a really stirring moment for me. It's hard to explain the emotions I got walking into that stadium, and obviously that carried over to today, i was pumped up from the word go. – John Millman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a lack of respect for the fan that bought tickets. It's a shame. – Natalia Carvalho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You hear all these terrible things about how it is going to be and then you get here and it seems fine, then this happens and you feel it, you go on high alert again. – Lorie Schmetterling	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The focus is to play and win... Gold comes as a result of that. – Alison Cerutti	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I started crying because I had worked for 12 years for this moment, after two Olympic failures, it is very difficult to show your face again at the Olympic Games. Today, my soul was cleansed. – Diego Hypolito	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What happened today can only make me stronger, i need to repress my feelings so I can perform better at the next competition. – Kohei Uchimura	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I always said that what I most wanted to see was Zanetti in the rings. It's a lack of respect for the fan that bought tickets. It's a shame. – Natalia Carvalho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The world needs to know – I am here watching this spectacle from a slum right next to where they are opening the Olympics, and my life has not improved at all, it is frustrating to be so close to this spectacle and yet so far away, living in a place were we have no security, not even sewage. – Jose Carmo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is frustrating to be so close to this spectacle and yet so far away, living in a place were we have no security, not even sewage. – Jose Carmo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We need help, and it seems bizarre to beg when the city I live in is hosting the Olympics, i only ask that we get more help with health, security and education. – Denilson Lucio Souza	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
No, nothing has changed in my life because of hosting these Games and it's absurd to think that anything will change for my two children. – Lilian Sales	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is a Brazilian law that any public pool over a certain size has to have lifeguards, we wish we didn't have them either( at the Games) but we have to have them. – Ricardo Prado	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's really one of the funniest things I've seen in the Olympic Games so far, have any of you guys been to Bali before ? You see the lifeguards and they sit up on the tower drinking Bintangs( beer) all day. That's what it reminded me of. – New Zealand swimmer Matthew Stanley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We work our butts off and I think we have one of the most difficult sports in the Games because we require so many different skills. – Olympian Connor Fields	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
At this point, it is not 100 percent, but it doesn't impinge my ability to ride or do anything on the track. – Olympian Connor Fields	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I know I may be biased, but I think BMX is so cool and one of the best sports in the world, if being a Ralph Lauren athlete can help get more BMX on TV then I am happy. – Olympian Connor Fields	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We do not intend to investigate ... we do however have what we think is a state-of-the-art policy regarding abuse and misconduct, i will say since we became more focused on this issue in 2010, like many others, USA Gymnastics has been one of the most vocal proponents of creating very strong policies, procedures, and investigative resources to take a look at this. – The USOC	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have 22 and we are going to have 23, we are going to get a very good midfielder. – Jose Mourinho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We can make six substitutions instead of three, so that gives me the chance to give minutes to people, it also gives me the chance to play some players I know can't play 90 minutes, as they have no condition to play for 90 minutes. It will be a little bit of everything. Of course, we are going to try to win it. – Jose Mourinho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Paul Pogba is Paul Pogba until Paul Pogba isn't, officially, so we stay like this. – Jose Mourinho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

I spent the rest of my career trying to redeem Brett Favre and make him proud. I hope I succeeded.

– Brett Favre

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

And it's a very good party!

– Sergio Soares

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was about an hour before it happened, I was already in the stadium, i wasn't expecting it. I know that when they did polls there were a lot of appeals for Vanderlei to light the cauldron. I gave interviews to Brazilian and foreign media, they had raised the idea abroad, but I never thought it was a possibility. I never thought I could be that person.

– Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Man, they called me at the last minute to replace Pele. living this emotional experience was better than winning a medal. I was able to share this with the whole nation, I was representing every one of them.

– Vanderlei Cordeiro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I couldn't miss the (parade). That was a really stirring moment for me. It's hard to explain the emotions I got walking into that stadium, and obviously that carried over to today, i was pumped up from the word go.

– John Millman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a lack of respect for the fan that bought tickets. It's a shame.

– Natalia Carvalho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You hear all these terrible things about how it is going to be and then you get here and it seems fine, then this happens and you feel it, you go on high alert again.

– Lorie Schmetterling

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The focus is to play and win... Gold comes as a result of that.

– Alison Cerutti

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I started crying because I had worked for 12 years for this moment, after two Olympic failures, it is very difficult to show your face again at the Olympic Games. Today, my soul was cleansed.

– Diego Hypolito

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What happened today can only make me stronger, i need to repress my feelings so I can perform better at the next competition.

– Kohei Uchimura

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I always said that what I most wanted to see was Zanetti in the rings. It's a lack of respect for the fan that bought tickets. It's a shame.

– Natalia Carvalho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The world needs to know – I am here watching this spectacle from a slum right next to where they are opening the Olympics, and my life has not improved at all, it is frustrating to be so close to this spectacle and yet so far away, living in a place were we have no security, not even sewage.

– Jose Carmo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is frustrating to be so close to this spectacle and yet so far away, living in a place were we have no security, not even sewage.

– Jose Carmo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need help, and it seems bizarre to beg when the city I live in is hosting the Olympics, i only ask that we get more help with health, security and education.

– Denilson Lucio Souza

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No, nothing has changed in my life because of hosting these Games and it's absurd to think that anything will change for my two children.

– Lilian Sales

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is a Brazilian law that any public pool over a certain size has to have lifeguards, we wish we didn't have them either( at the Games) but we have to have them.

– Ricardo Prado

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's really one of the funniest things I've seen in the Olympic Games so far, have any of you guys been to Bali before ? You see the lifeguards and they sit up on the tower drinking Bintangs( beer) all day. That's what it reminded me of.

– New Zealand swimmer Matthew Stanley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We work our butts off and I think we have one of the most difficult sports in the Games because we require so many different skills.

– Olympian Connor Fields

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At this point, it is not 100 percent, but it doesn't impinge my ability to ride or do anything on the track.

– Olympian Connor Fields

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I know I may be biased, but I think BMX is so cool and one of the best sports in the world, if being a Ralph Lauren athlete can help get more BMX on TV then I am happy.

– Olympian Connor Fields

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We do not intend to investigate ... we do however have what we think is a state-of-the-art policy regarding abuse and misconduct, i will say since we became more focused on this issue in 2010, like many others, USA Gymnastics has been one of the most vocal proponents of creating very strong policies, procedures, and investigative resources to take a look at this.

– The USOC

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have 22 and we are going to have 23, we are going to get a very good midfielder.

– Jose Mourinho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We can make six substitutions instead of three, so that gives me the chance to give minutes to people, it also gives me the chance to play some players I know can't play 90 minutes, as they have no condition to play for 90 minutes. It will be a little bit of everything. Of course, we are going to try to win it.

– Jose Mourinho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Paul Pogba is Paul Pogba until Paul Pogba isn't, officially, so we stay like this.

– Jose Mourinho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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