Medal Quotes

• In 25 years in the business, I've never experienced anything more stirring than watching Dan Jansen win his gold medal. It's still the only time I've ever cried in a press box.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Gold
  • Medal
  • Dan Jansen

• Managing to jump from the triple kicker with such a severe injury, I gained much confidence at that time and I promised to train harder while back in China and try to taste a medal four years later.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Jump
  • China
  • Injury

• The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

  

  George Gregan
  • Want
  • Olympics
  • Medal

• I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.

  

  Evgeni Plushenko
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Gold

• My job is not only to give medals, you know, which certainly is part of my function. First and foremost, though, my job is about ensuring success of the work in various spheres. It is a kind of day-to-day spadework.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Various

• After my skate, I took off my dress, I changed and I really didn't think I was going to get a medal. I was just a little bit in shock, just sitting there.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Changed
  • Dress
  • Skate

• I used to dream of medals and championships, but now I dream solely of a blue-eyed fighter who one day changed my life, when he put his lips on mine. . .

  

  Katy Evans
  • Dream
  • Changed
  • Championship

• I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal when I finished skating. I was just in a little bit of shock.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Finished
  • Skating
  • Medal

• To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Money
  • Tennis
  • Absurd

• I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

  

  Aleks Paunovic
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Medal

• In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Military
  • Sacrifice

• Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Heroes
  • Contract
  • Million

• We're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about trying to win the gold medal. All of these things can be overwhelming. But regardless of whether I win a gold medal or never compete again, I just have to trust that God has a plan for my life and I'm called to be His representative through the sport and outside of the sport.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • God
  • Trust
  • Win

• I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

  

  Evgeni Plushenko
  • Car
  • Care
  • Enough

• I don't think it will kick in until we have to come to practice and we're not playing in the gold medal game.

  

  Natalie Darwitz
  • Game
  • Practice
  • Medal

• The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • Rewards
  • Medal

• Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Medal

• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  

  David Rice
  • Opinion
  • Lying
  • Insult

• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Running
  • Forget
  • Organization

• I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a dangerous spot. I was beaten by a woman that got up faster than I did. I learned that people fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster.

  

  Bonnie St. John
  • Woman
  • Winners
  • Medal

• All friends and relatives supported me. I do not know what to say. This is the victory for all Russians, for the whole country. We won the gold medal we were dreaming about. We deserved it.

  

  Alexander Ovechkin
  • Medal
  • Supported
  • Deserved

• Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.

  

  Carolina Kluft
  • Trying
  • Events
  • Medal

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

  

  Nigel Starmer-Smith
  • Last
  • Medal
  • Bronze

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