Medal Quotes · Page 14

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

— Shawn Johnson

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling…

— Dorothy Hamill

Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked…

— Conan O'Brien

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal…

— Anthony Browne

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't…

— Jimmy Carr

I was a hangover of that era where they’d say “Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You’re going…

— George Hamilton

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I…

— Hope Solo

I get to do the fun part which is racing. I get to enjoy the race... I don't need a piece of…

— Caeleb Dressel

I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked…

— Dick Beardsley

We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have…

— Karch Kiraly

I've won a medal, but that's nothing compared to the crown I'll get in Heaven. I see a lot of people in…

— Cindy Klassen

Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a…

— Jeb Bush

If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool…

— Peter Boettke

It's incredible, they're [the medals] beautiful and as soon as they put them around your neck, it's pretty amazing. Shannon played outstandingly…

— Jennifer Botterill

I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the…

— Yevgeny Kafelnikov

The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint.…

— Arthur Koestler

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

— Muhammad Ali

It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I…

— Lolo Jones

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting…

— Charles Barkley

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance,…

— Cindy Klassen

I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of…

— Erick Barrondo

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

— Jim Lampley

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

— Orson Scott Card

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a…

— James Franco

I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number…

— Jerry Seinfeld

There is a pressure in this country that comes from being a boxer with an Olympic medal and then turning pro.

— James DeGale

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

— Ron Pickering

I'm looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it's going to take to get there.

— Max Aaron

If I wouldn't have medaled at the Olympics, it still would have been a successful trip. The medal is the icing on…

— Eddy Alvarez

One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his…

— Anonymous

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those…

— Marquis de Sade

I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for…

— Eddie the Eagle

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

— Dorothy Hamill

The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.

— Dominic Thiem

Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But…

— Carmelo Anthony

And it wasn't so much the medal, it was stepping out of the ramp during the Opening Ceremony. Man, I took a…

— Eddy Alvarez

“The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la médaille pour tout collier)”

— Charles de Leusse

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that…

— George Leonard

I used to be so excited for the Olympics, I would track the medal counts and everything else.

— Clay Travis

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

— Saina Nehwal