Medal Quotes

The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

I don't know where my medals are.

And I know what confidence medals can bring.

The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

I was a hangover of that era where they’d say “Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You’re going to lose your audience with that.”

I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded. "I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over

You don't need to win every medal to be successful.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal.

Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

I have two hands. I can hold two medals.