Getting a medal is not a small feat, irrespective of what color it is. — Jwala Gutta Copy Share Image
People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster! — Bonnie St. John Copy Share Image
The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I should have got a medal at Neunkirchen, my first club in Germany. — Jay-Jay Okocha Copy Share Image
I'd rather have one gold medal and 10 caps than 200 caps and no gold. — Karen Carney Copy Share Image
I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S.… — Bonnie Blair Copy Share Image
More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would… — Nadia Comaneci Copy Share Image
Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward. — Alicia Sacramone 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
My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that. — Troy Dumais Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm feeling alright, I am pretty happy with it. I was trying to catch her, around 37k my calf started to cramp… — Lanni Marchant Copy Share Image
Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I have been injured 37 times, in seven cases seriously. I've already had a cornada (horn-wound) at stomach level. A bull's horn… — Juan Jose Padilla Copy Share Image
Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces… — Mario Vargas Llosa 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
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Medal of Honor belongs to every man and woman who gives us the freedom today to be able to hold our flag… — Michael E. Thornton 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
“Oh God, my stomach must have won a medal- it's doing a lap of honour now.” — Ali McNamara 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
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open. — Nancy Kerrigan Copy Share Image
