Blood Quote by Henry Cejudo

When it actually came to everyone clamoring to see the medal and talking about the experience, I began to feel empty inside. I started…

— Stephanie Labbe

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

— Bob Kerrey

I showed everyone the medal and they said, 'Ooh, I can't believe how heavy it is,' Sometimes they were more interested in the medal…

— Sarah Hughes

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

— Jessica Long

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of…

— Sebastian Coe

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that…

— Kyle Shewfelt

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

— John Krasinski

Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at…

— Gabby Douglas

It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process --…

— Silken Laumann

“I wasn't even sure why I was getting this medal, really. No, that's not true. I knew why. It's like people you see sometimes,…

— R.J. Palacio

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been…

— Paula Radcliffe

It wasn't the Medal of Honor that changed my life. It was being in Vietnam itself. The close situations changed my whole way of…

— Michael E. Thornton