Medal Quotes - Page 7

• Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

  Zach Braff

  Real, Winning, Eight

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• I think we all have a lot of room to drop and our takeovers were really safe so tonight we're still going to be safe but a little bit more risky than we were this morning and see if we can get our hand on the wall for a medal.

  Brittany MacLean

  Morning, Wall, Swimming

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• There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

  Chris Witty

  Expectations, Riding, Pressure

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• When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

  Kipchoge Keino

  Sports, Hockey, Winning

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• No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

  James C. Collins

  Success, Dream, Morning

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• TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population.

  Stephen Colbert

  Men, White, Giving

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• Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

  John Krasinski

  Trophies, Like You, Accomplished

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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 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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• For my first pretty big international competition and the Olympics, I think I did pretty well. Medals aren't everything. It's all about you going out there and having a good time. I feel proud of myself.

  Kimmie Meissner

  Thinking, Competition, Going Out

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• The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Jobs, Team, Guy

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• 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.

  Marat Safin

  Winning, Goal, Tennis

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• Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Gratitude, Art, Wall

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1905). “Old Fashioned Flowers: And Other Out-of-door Studies”

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• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Country, Silly

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• Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve achieved anything, you’ve got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do.

  Paula Broadwell

  Mean, Differences, Making A Difference

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• When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.

  Linford Christie

  Sports, Real, Athlete

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• I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.

  Justin Gatlin

  Rain, Winning, What Matters

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• It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.

  Michelle Kwan

  Winning, Titles, Would Be

  "Graceful Kwan still seeking gold" by Bob Phillips, www.espn.com.

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• The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

  Ekaterina Gordeeva

  Gold, Unions, Firsts

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• I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen.

  Irina Slutskaya

  Ice, Competition, Anything Can Happen

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• As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

  Peter Snell

  Motivational, Teenager, Athlete

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• I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train with his body. He trains with his mind.

  Hicham El Guerrouj

  Crazy, Athlete, Self Confidence

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• If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Winning, Joy

  Charles R. Swindoll (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles R. Swindoll”, Arrowood Press

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• Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

  Ai Weiwei

  Men, Judging, Gold

  "Gold Is Not the Real Measure of a Nation". www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2008.

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• Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Gay, Mvp, Gold

  "WNBA Star Sheryl Swoopes: I'm Gay", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.

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