Medal Quotes - Page 10

• Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Perfect, Vision, Needs

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• I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Trying, Five

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• The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Rights, Law, Two Sides

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• Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

  Jim Lampley

  Dog, Cycling, Snooker

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• It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.

  Peggy Fleming

  Character, Grace, Gold

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• It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.

  Ashton Eaton

  Important, Gold, Bigger

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• I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure intentions. I came from a true sport, an Olympic background, winning multiple national, international and Olympic medals. So I entered MMA as a sport.

  Matt Lindland

  Sports, Winning, Mma

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Stupid, Bronze Medal

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• The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Cycling

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• If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible.

  Jill Douglas

  Air, Gold, Special

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• 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.

  Dan O'Brien

  Winning, Special, Gold

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• Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

  Carol Shields

  Adventure, Men, Weight

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• Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

  George Leonard

  Gold, Rewards, Path

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.108, Penguin

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• Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

  Mark Zupan

  Country, People, Done

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• No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.

  Henry Miller

  Hero, Gun, Voice

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• Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.

  Mark Zupan

  Soccer, Hard Work, Player

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• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Dan O'Brien

  Dream, Winning, Jail

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• I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

  Michael Johnson

  Years, Careers, Gold

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• I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

  James Franco

  Thinking, Desire, Hobbies

  "127 Hours - James Franco interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Horse

  "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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• The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

  Alberto Juantorena

  People, Support, Done

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

  Shaun White

  Summer, Winter, Trying

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• We're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about trying to win the gold medal. All of these things can be overwhelming. But regardless of whether I win a gold medal or never compete again, I just have to trust that God has a plan for my life and I'm called to be His representative through the sport and outside of the sport.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Winning, Talking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I know that God is working through me within this sport. I know He's put me here for a purpose and it's not just to win medals. Winning is great and hopefully it gives me a platform to spread His love and spread His Word, but at the end of the day, I'm called to do what He wants me to do.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Winning, Giving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• He is a very complete, spectacular footballer. He always fights for the ball and tries to lose his marker to help his team-mates - either to defend or to have a shot on goal. For any football player in the Premiership, Scholes is a player you want to emulate. I would happily end my career with the medals that Scholes has. I am young and I hope that I will be able to surpass him - but it is not going to be easy.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Football, Team, Fighting

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