Medal Quotes - Page 10

• I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Book, Teaching

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• I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

  Johnny Weir

  Mom, Athlete, Winning

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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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• In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

  Lavinia Milosovici

  Sports, Hero, Gymnastics

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• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

  Michael Johnson

  Cocky, Shoes, Gold

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Winning, Boys, Directors

  Source: deadline.com

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• President Obama awarded a National Medal of Arts to author Stephen King. You know, because if there's anyone who can relate to the story of a guy trapped in a mansion that's driving him insane, it's Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Art, Kings, Guy

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• Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.

  Carolina Kostner

  Fun, Winning, Skating

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• Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Mad

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• There's mornings where I have to clear my mind and think, "OK, why am I doing this? Why am I putting myself through this kind of training every day?" I can literally see myself standing on top of a medal podium winning a gold medal next to my teammates, something I've never accomplished. It reminds me: That's why I do what I do. That's why I love it. Let's get in the gym and have a good workout.

  Jonathan Horton

  Workout, Morning, Winning

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.

  Sheila E.

  Running, Winning, Years

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