Quotes About Recognition

I knew I'd made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of my songs. It was fantastic.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'

I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'

As I get older and older, people like my work more and more.

We don't do enough to help older people recognize how much they matter.

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that's enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the medal unless someone asks about it.

I am Olympic champion for life, and I have learned to enjoy what that means.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.

Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about women's ability to run longer distances. It was finally added after much campaigning.

Everybody kept saying I wasn't going to get any fights. And they wouldn't put me on TV and they don't respect women's boxing. But I also turned professional with two Olympic gold medals and that's something that no other American boxer has ever done. With that, I've been getting a lot of respect.

We knew James Harden was good. You don't get named to All-Star games and win Olympic gold medals when you play like Darko Milicic.

I still really haven't sat down and said 'yeah, I'm ranked No. 1 in the world and I'm an Olympic Gold Medalist.' It just hasn't hit me.

I love all the attention I've got since becoming Olympic champion and being asked to go to different events, but boxing is what I do.

The Emmy that I lost, and I can't remember his name, I lost to the man who did the Olympics. So, it was great to lose to him. It's the Olympics.

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.