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

• 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'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

• 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

• 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

• I've always said you might not ever see a mid-major go to the Final Four. When a mid-major wins a game, especially if it's not a good seed, if they play a powerhouse, getting to the Sweet 16 is like going to the Elite Eight. Going to the Elite Eight is like going to the Final Four, so George Mason has already won the national championship. If they win the next two games, they'll have won the world championship. They'll have to give them a gold medal.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Game
  • Sweet
  • Championship

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.

  

  Simone Manuel
  • Honor
  • Stand
  • Medal

• It's all about pride now. Do we want to go home and throw it in the bag and say, 'Screw this' and get drunk tonight? Or are we going to try to turn it around and go home with a medal?

  

  Natalie Darwitz
  • Pride
  • Try
  • Medal

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • Rewards
  • 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

• 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

• We have been waiting for this medal for a long time.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Medal

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

  

  Nigel Starmer-Smith
  • Last
  • Medal
  • Bronze

• Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Medal

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