Medal Quotes · Page 6

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

— Seth Godin

Winning a gold medal was something I always wanted. It's something I always expected to do.

— Cael Sanderson

You're still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work.

— Jessica Long

You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.

— Donovan Bailey

If being a douche was an Olympic sport, I know some people that would have a gold medal!

— Anonymous

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

— Jason Fried

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

— Shaun White

The only way you'd win is if they gave a medal for sh!t talkers.

— Anonymous

I have a world championship medal from 2014, but I can't find it. So I'm missing one. I think it's at my…

— Claressa Shields

As soon as we landed in Tokyo, that's when I was like, OK. I really want to bring home a gold medal.'

— Jessica Long

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

— Patrick Ewing

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honour that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title…

— Jeff Fenech

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

— Kenny Anderson

Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.

— Scottie Pippen

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.

— Aleks Paunovic

People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or…

— Walter Brueggemann

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did…

— Jay Leno

I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a…

— Warren Buffett

When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that…

— Linford Christie

Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve achieved anything, you’ve got to do something beyond yourself to make…

— Paula Broadwell

Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish…

— David Rice

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics…

— Jaime Pressly

Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and…

— Amby Burfoot

We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today.…

— Jacque Fresco

Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that…

— Rajneesh

No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you…

— James C. Collins

TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican…

— Stephen Colbert

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

Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields…

— Edward Steichen

“No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end…

— Henry Miller

Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,…

— Richard Kirwan

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

— Katie Taylor

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

— Howard Bach

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

— Nancy Kerrigan

I'm trying to get a gold medal, so I'll do whatever.

— Breanna Stewart

I want to play for my country and win a gold medal.

— Donovan Mitchell

I'd rather have one gold medal and 10 caps than 200 caps and no gold.

— Karen Carney

“Oh God, my stomach must have won a medal- it's doing a lap of honour now.”

— Ali McNamara

If you win even one tournament or medal, people can think they have become big.

— P. T. Usha