Medal Quotes - Page 4

• Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren't boys.

  Julie Foudy

  Winning, Boys, Championship

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• I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

  Debi Thomas

  Motivational, Athlete, Winter

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• 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 able to get an Olympic medal.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Should Have, Looks, Might

  "Paula Radcliffe hoping to finish 'crappy year' with success in Berlin" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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• After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Jobs, Home

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.

  Simon Sinek

  Running, Race, Sight

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.224, Penguin

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• I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.

  Yevgeny Kafelnikov

  Winning, Years, Tennis

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• Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

  Inge de Bruijn

  Motivational, Country, Hard Work

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• Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Hands, Eras, Financial

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• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  Laura Wilkinson

  Winning, Goal, Gold

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• The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

  Bode Miller

  People, Three, Should

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• I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did--
  guys who were killed.

  Audie Murphy

  Should Have, Guy, Soldier

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• Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

  Esther Williams

  Sports, Gold, Events

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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  Venus Williams

  Interesting, Gold, Dresses

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• You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Monsters, Doe

  Orson Scott Card (1986). “Ender's war”

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• Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

  Hugh Laurie

  Father, Humility, Gold

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• I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Drinking, Men

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.60, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

  Joseph Heller

  Ideas, Class, Tennis

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.

  Craig Ferguson

  Wise, Jesus, Stars

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• I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Differences, Tears

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 09, 2010

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• I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Awards, America

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded. "I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Care, Pedals

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• He put his arms around her. “Well, in my defense, then, whatever I did seemed to work, didn't it?” She sighed. “I suppose.” “You suppose?” “What do you want? A medal?” “For starters. A trophy would be nice, too.” She smiled. “What do you think you're holding right now?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 19, 2012

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• The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.

  William Buckland

  Science, Mind, Age

  William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.6

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• I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Winning, Thinking, Gold

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

  Patrick Ewing

  Basketball, Play, Gold

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