Quotes About Medal

Winning that gold medal in Sydney really did change my life.

For me I tried to not keep a low profile but I was training in a different country as I prepared for Sydney because I had such a realistic gold medal shot. I just wanted to stay focused and not get caught up in all of the hullabaloo and all of press prior to it.

medal. A religious medal to some kind of saint.

Honors ennoble those on whom they're bestowed, but they also ease the guilt of those whose commands made them necessary in the first place. A medal is a mirror, reflecting a glory that we force ourselves to believe in.

The records only count when we have won silverware.

The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'

Of course, I can't wait until I get the medal and I can walk around the house and say, 'Daddy, I got you.'

I came back to Mumbai with the tag of having assisting the legendary Satyajit Ray. I thought that would be a medal, but it became a disqualification. People thought I would only make serious kinds of cinema.

The World University Games Gold medal was a great confidence booster for me. It highlighted my talents, my performance and dedication.

I have always said being part of the team and winning a medal for my country was my first preference.

Everyone is getting prepared for this, to win the gold medal. I am among them: I want to win the medal.

President Bush bestowed the Congressional Medal on myself.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

London was the hardest Olympic Games, and before it, I was really just hoping to win a medal, even if it was not the gold medal. At the same time, I have my next target. I am not settling for three golds in a row. I now want to try for a fourth.

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.

I take a lot of pride in my first '92 gold medal.

There is a pressure in this country that comes from being a boxer with an Olympic medal and then turning pro.

I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

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