Quotes About Victory

Freedom is not a God-given right, we have to earn it.

Any time you can win going home is great.

Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment.

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold.

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.

If I won gold in 2016, I think it would change my life.

Getting three gold medals is something I'll really cherish.

If I'm at my best, I feel I must win gold all the time.

I'm confident I can take the gold in Beijing.

I'm going to win a gold medal.

I had a lot of wonderful accomplishments in the game of basketball. Of course, to win a gold medal for your country - it doesn't get any better than that.

I've achieved my dream of getting a Paralympic gold medal and I'm very lucky that I've been to three Games where I've come away with five gold medals.

It would be meaningful if I can get a gold medal in my parents' country.

Everybody expects me to win the gold medal.

It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

I've won a world championship, I know how that feels. I don't know how it feels to win a gold medal. I want to feel that; I want to know that.

Winning a gold medal means you're the best in the world at that time.

I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.

Everything I do is for a gold medal for this country.

I'm chasing that gold medal.