Quotes About Podium

When I stepped up to the podium and looked out before the audience of L.A. critics, my first remarks to the room were: "Gee, thanks, now I finally know what Kevin Thomas looks like.

I have a running daydream about winning an Oscar and giving my speech about how ridiculous it is to rank art. And then I'd call them all sycophants and leave the statue at the podium as I walked away.

There was that feeling of standing on the podium and listening to someone else's national anthem that really sucked.

For me, personally, getting a podium is not as important as feeling super comfortable on my skiing.

Charlie watched her husband's boss grip the sides of the podium like he was about to sodomize it.

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

On television, I have watched countless athletes from different countries, sports and Olympics stand proudly at the top of the podium and shed tears. They symbolized the Olympics for me because Olympic medals represent all of the hard work and sacrifices made by the athletes as well as the people who helped them reach the top of their sports.

The whole podium time was like it was in slow motion. I was watching the flag go up realizing I'm part of one of the greatest countries on earth.

I am pretty pleased. I will be on the Olympic podium, so you can't be more happy.

There's no better place to be on the podium than here at Monza.

Every Olympics, we always end up having someone on the podium that we had no idea, or we didn't expect them to be.

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

Every single race that I get on the podium in biathlon, I'm shocked.

To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.

Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart.

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

Finishing on the podium in my first year, I never expected that. It just fell into place.