Medal Quotes - Page 18

• [Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

  Mao Zedong

  Government, Politics, Should

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• If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

  Brian Boitano

  Cameras, Skating, Flash

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• And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to strive for. I love my silver medal, because it stands for all my dreams and all I'm still capable of fulfilling

  Michelle Kwan

  Dream, Gold, Realizing

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• It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.

  Deborah Copaken

  Mom, Jobs, Children

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• Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Heart, Winning

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• In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  War, Heaven, Murder

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• I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Deep Thought, Disease, Saws

  "The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon, Compiled from His Diaries, Letters, and Records by His Wife and His Private Secretary" by Fleming H. Revell, Vol. 2, (pp. 371-372), 1899.

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• (American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)
  I swam my brains out.

  Mark Spitz

  Summer, Winning, Brain

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• I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.

  John F. Kerry

  War, America, Want

  "CNN Daybreak", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

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• We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.

  Jacque Fresco

  Teaching, Men, Wisest Man

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• Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Children, Heart

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.10, Emblem Editions

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• Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

  Gabby Douglas

  Blood, Sweat, Effort

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• Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal on home soil is an honour in itself. There is no doubt in my mind that we were prepared for whatever it was going to take. And I think that we battled hard and we had no doubt in our mind that if we went out there and played Canadian hockey that we would come out successful.

  Meghan Agosta-Marciano

  Country, Home, Successful

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• I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

  Marian Dragulescu

  Gymnastics, Winning, Games

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• We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams.

  Karch Kiraly

  Volleyball, Team, Fall

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• I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

  Steven Bradbury

  Sports, Thinking, Race

  "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Children, Cat

  "Carpe Jugulum". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

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• When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Winning, Gold, Transition

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• When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.

  Andrew Roberts

  War, Islands, Israel

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• Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Sacrifice, Winning, Years

  Misty May-Treanor (2010). “Misty: Digging Deep in Volleyball and Life”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Long, Worry, Mountain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

  Gino Bartali

  Sports, Achievement, Soul

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• I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rivers, Ohio, Black History

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 20, 2012

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• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Love, Faith, Peace

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• 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.

  Kara Goucher

  Giving, Luck, Three

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