Quotes About Medal

It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

My dad used to be a goalie. He actually won a bronze medal with Team Canada in 1956.

My first medal, the League Cup at Tottenham, that was a very proud moment for me. Being captain, and winning. But also winning the double in my first year at Arsenal, that was special.

My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.

A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to.

Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.

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.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Not all good works can turn a profit, but profits can be directed toward good. As Warren Buffett explains, "I've worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.

then, with no emotion in her voice, as though repeating a thing which did not really concern her, she said, "I don't see why Claude Daigle got the medal. It was mine. Everybody knew it was mine.

Two debuted at Los Angeles: the introduction of the now familiar medal ceremony, with national anthems and a three-tiered podium; and the creation of an Olympic village, not just as a practical solution to an accommodation problem, but as a stage for the production of Olympic tableaux and messages. Berlin completed the curious evolution of the modern Olympics' use of mythic fire with the staging of a torch relay from Olympia to the host city.

As far as I'm concerned, the gator that ate T.C. deserves a medal from Crime Stoppers.

If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.

Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

Whoever managed to rebrand the typical open-plan office—with all its noise, lack of privacy, and resulting interruptions—as something hip and modern deserves a damn medal from the Committee of Irritating Distractions.

In 1825, on the occasion of the jubilee, Pope Leo XII. struck a medal, bearing on the one side his won image, and on the other, that of the Church of Rome symbolised as a "Woman," holding in her left hand a cross, and in her right a CUP, with the legend around her, "Sedet super universum," "The whole world is her seat.

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me.

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.