You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now. — Jordyn Wieber Copy Share Image
You're still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal. — Donovan Bailey Copy Share Image
Winning a gold medal was something I always wanted. It's something I always expected to do. — Cael Sanderson Copy Share Image
I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing. — Shaun White Copy Share Image
“she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport” — Marlene Perez Copy Share Image
What is great about being in sport was when you won, you got a gold medal and you knew you had won. — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
It is an important competition and I certainly rate my gold medals at the Commonwealth Games right up there with my world… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
We surprised ourselves in '84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn't yet until we won the gold… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
We need a Slavery Remembrance Day... we also need to accord dignity and respect to the enslaved people... with a Congressional gold… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
My having won a gold medal in Beijing is not going to be an extra advantage. It does not have any bearing… — Abhinav Bindra Copy Share Image
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
In 2016 I was fresh and raw and it was grit and determination which got me to the gold medal. Nobody really… — Kadeena Cox Copy Share Image
“no one ever got a gold medal for sittin’ on their ass and doin’ nothin’. You work at somethin’, you work at… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
“To be sure, there are human abilities that other animals lack, but the more we learn about animals, the more abilities we… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the key to happiness is neither the race nor the gold medal, but rather combining the right doses of excitement and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though… — Bernie Siegel M.D Copy Share Image
While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when… — David Rudisha Copy Share Image
“Heinrich Harrer: That's the Olympic gold medal. Not important. Pema Lhaki: This is another great difference between our civilization and yours. You… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“If you were going to give a gold medal to Count Olaf, you would have to lock it up someplace before the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the… — Leo Ryan Copy Share Image
We need to make seeing a therapist more accessible; we've got to crack down on this and allow people the opportunity to… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
“You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“As I prepare for my marathon qualifier, I continue to run on Wednesdays with the regular group. We continue to navigate a… — Robert Andrew Powell Copy Share Image
If being a douche was an Olympic sport, I know some people that would have a gold medal! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal. — Katie Taylor Copy Share Image
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm living a dream. I hope in 10 years people will know me as a gold medalist. — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything. — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
You have got to go through all of the opponents to get to the gold medal. — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
