Gold medal Quotes · Page 6

My lifelong dream was to be an Olympian and a gold medalist - and I got it at 26.

— Dawn Staley

That's what the Olympics is about - getting your name on the wall, and that gold medal.

— Emma McKeon

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

— Esther Williams

Winning a gold medal means you're the best in the world at that time.

— Michelle Carter

Win or lose, I'm going to leave everything on the mat. That's what gold medalists do.

— Diana Lopez

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

— Scott Hamilton

To win a gold medal for your country is something you can only dream about.

— Andrey Rublev

After getting a gold medal I could celebrate but also was trying to keep the emotions at bay.

— Emma McKeon

The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as…

— David Letterman

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe…

— Eric Heiden

Never Hold Your Head High With Pride Or Ego. Remember.., Even The Winner Of A Gold Medal, Gets The Medal Only When…

— Ritu Ghatourey

An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a…

— Hannah Kearney

I've done it the hard way - first Olympic gold medallist from Great Britain to win a world title, the 'road warrior.'…

— James DeGale

“it seem like he was training for the Olympics and I was the gold medal. No one had ever acted like I…

— Anna Quindlen

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way,…

— Shannon Miller

I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there.…

— Charles Krauthammer

My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and…

— David Rudisha

I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I…

— Judit Polgar

To win an Open at St Andrews is one of the highest pinnacles you could ever achieve in sport. You play there…

— Jon Rahm

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the…

— David Rudisha

In America with the Olympics when you not only have a medal but a gold medal all of a sudden people come…

— Kristin Armstrong

Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal…

— Meghan Agosta-Marciano

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

— Linford Christie

Gold medals don't make champions . . . hard work does.

— Azgraybebly Joslan Maxcuell

I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

— Cameron van der Burgh

I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

— Caitlyn Jenner

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

— Fidel Castro

“If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.”

— Deb Caletti

I have a goal in front of me and that is to achieve a gold medal at the Olympics in air rifle…

— Abhinav Bindra

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

— Jesse Owens

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Dorothy Hamill

I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,

— Ian Thorpe

My one and only focus at the Olympic Games is to win a gold medal.

— Jordan Burroughs

I be rocking Prada like a devil in this bitch. And a Birkin bag like a gold medal to this bitch.

— Meek Mill

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

— Andrew Solomon

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

— Jon Jones

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

— Amby Burfoot

When a player cheats, you can't have a gold medal, right?

— Yu Darvish