Medal Quotes
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.
An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.
Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.
Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.
I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.
I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen.
Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.
Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.
I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'
As badly as I want a medal, I know there is a lot of luck involved in that. I want to put myself in position to be in the top three, give it my all and hope luck comes my way.
We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching
If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.
I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.
You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...
My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.
To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.
