Quotes About Medals

Never accept medals unless they come printed on the back of a cheque.

male vanity goes deeper and is costlier. Look at their military uniforms and medals, the pomp and solemnity with which they show off, the extreme measures they employ to impress women and make other men envious; their luxurious toys, like cars, and their toys of supremacy, like weapons.

Charles had perished in Italy, like hundreds of other Japanese-Americans in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which became known as the Purple Heart Battalion due to the extraordinary number of medals for valor it had been awarded. That regiment, made up entirely of nisei, was the most decorated in US military history

I made the New Zealand team, won medals around the world. I thought, 'I'm blessed. I've got a good talent.' I had no idea, though, how good I might be. But I loved the sport.

We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities.

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In

When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.

I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.

It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.

Prizes and medals. Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

My ultimate dream was to get to the Olympics. I never thought I would come away with two gold medals.

I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.

When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.

We have won laurels for the country in wrestling but still, in spite of winning medals, not many people recognised us.

You have to be pretty fortunate to do multiple games and have a shot at medals.

I feel, at the national level, shooters should get monetary rewards also, along with medals and a handshake.

An air force general with so many campaign medals on his uniform that it looked like someone was losing a game of mah-jongg on his chest.

They looked young and clean shaven and eager in brand-new helmets; with medals glinting on their gray-green uniforms. Young most of all. Not monsters; just boys, really.

People win medals in all shapes and sizes! And I can't help but say that finding a fiance who loves me unconditionally at any size has played a huge role in my body confidence.

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

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

A scan of the walls had the grin turning to a wince. Blue ribbons, medals, awards were all neatly framed and displayed.There were photographs of her in formal riding gear flying over jumps, smiling from the back of a horse or standing with her cheek pressed to her mount's neck. And in a thick frame was an Olympic medal. A silver. Well hell.We'll make that two portions of crow, he murmured.