Medals Quotes
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Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war.
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Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.
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We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.
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Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.
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Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.
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I didn't think I was going to get any medals, and so it was great to get silver.
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It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
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Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.
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My desire to compete has grown with each level of competition and is what still excites me today. I am blessed to have gone from the playground to winning a college national championship to representing my country and winning two Olympic gold medals.
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We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
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Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
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After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.
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On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.
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I know that God is working through me within this sport. I know He's put me here for a purpose and it's not just to win medals. Winning is great and hopefully it gives me a platform to spread His love and spread His Word, but at the end of the day, I'm called to do what He wants me to do.
