Quotes About Medals

To be looked up to as one of the Americans that's supposed to carry the torch, go to the major championships and get medals, that's a huge honour.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals. Holy crap, I said, when she set them on the desk. You're like a fish. Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see. I saw.

Trophy heads served much the same social purpose for primitive warriors as medals, decorations, or marks of fallen enemy aircraft do for modern ones.

He most probably knew, already as a child, that he would accomplish great deeds of daring, and the trappings that would someday result were to be thought of as no more than diplomas. Medals were merely signatures upon the histories of dutiful deeds, which would have transpired with or without them.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

I'll relish playing at Wembley in a major cup final. It's a great achievement for me, and it's why I became a footballer, because I want to win medals.

A player wants to be remembered for what he has won, for the medals, for what he has given his club.

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.

I look at the athletes who have come before me and been so impressed with what they have done and been inspired by what they have done, but I've never really looked at the stats of medal counts.

The more medals I win, the more my ambitions and confidence levels increase.

talented but only a 6 or 7 out of 10, and we both know that the world only gives golden medals to the 9's and 10's

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

When I came back on the rink in 2012, I set a goal of wrapping up my career well rather than just winning medals. I'm not preparing for any special skills for Sochi because I don't feel like they are necessary.

My first major championships was in 2005, which makes me feel ancient. I'm really proud of playing in all the tournaments, yet I can have all the caps in the world, but there's no point if you don't have a gold medal.

We have regularly won medals at all tournaments and I think after 'Dangal,' the craze for wrestling increased among the girls.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

The whole reason I moved to the U.S. to be coached by Alberto Salazar is to be able to improve 1 or 2 per cent. I was sick of coming sixth in the world, seventh in the world, and get close to a medal, but not quite there, half-a-second.

I'm glad to be partnered with Orgullosa because I feel that now that I'm able to win a gold medal at the Olympics, win a silver medal, I feel little girls will be able to look up to me, and Hispanics will kind of rise a little more.

I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story.

I have got lots of silver medals, from Delhi in 2010 and London in 2012, so it would be nice to pick up some golds, and the Commonwealth Games is a great place to start.

Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.