Quotes About Medals

Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.

I'm extremely content with my silver and bronze medals. But once I won the gold, I fell in love.

I wish someone would offer a prize—not of a hundred francs, but of a million, with crowns, medals and ribbons—for a good, simple and intelligible definition of the word "Government." What an immense service it would confer on society!

I have given permission that my medals be transferred from the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi to the sports museum in Patiala.

What I think is about running faster and faster, and I believe that will translate into medals.

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

I'm not saying nothing, excepting to say it were done because it were needed to be done. There were lives needed saving. And there's an end to it. Lie isn't about medals. Now off you go, and leave me be. I got my lighthouse to look after.' And he just turned and walked away.

I used to watch Babita and Vinesh win medals. I was happy for my sisters but at the same time I felt bad for not being a part of the contingent.

Obviously, the skaters in generations before us didn't have the opportunity to win multiple medals at an Olympic Games. We recognize that.

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

It's incredible in our sport how small the differences are, and we are all aware of that. We're all on a high level and skiing well, and at the end, it's just hundredths that count. Maybe it's just one finger or a hand can change the color of a medal.

With his Gallic charm and chestful of medals, Nungesser proved irresistible to women and in the spring of 1923 after a whirlwind romance, he became engaged to a young New York socialite with the unimprovably glorious name of Consuelo Hatmaker.

During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold.

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.

The good that we do sinks into history like rainfall into the earth. The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.

The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

Players judge their careers based on medals and trophies, don't they, and they look back on what they have achieved.

By 1981, the seventy-four-year-old Brezhnev, hobbled by a series of strokes and barely able to function, could be seen drooling on himself on his rare appearances on Soviet television. Rather than removing him, however, the Politburo merely nominated him for still more medals. Lenin—the "incandescent" Lenin, as Churchill called him—would have been appalled.

If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

At the Usha School of Athletics, our sole aim is to earn Olympic gold medals for India.

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.