Gold Medals Quotes - Page 4

• It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Gold, Speed

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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• Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

  Shannon Miller

  Sports, Dream, Fun

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• In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

  Lavinia Milosovici

  Sports, Hero, Gymnastics

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• I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

  Patrick Ewing

  Basketball, Play, Gold

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• 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

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Ice

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• 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

  Bad Ass, Men, Russia

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• I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Years, Waiting

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• And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Goal, Gold, Want

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• We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams.

  Karch Kiraly

  Volleyball, Team, Fall

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• My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

  Debi Thomas

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people - people who have done no harm to you personally, people just like you. They have their children, their wives, their mothers, their old fathers to take care of - and you are killing the person just to get a gold medal. Your gun will slip out of your hand, and that will be an act of awareness. And you will feel tremendously blissful that it happened; even if you are being shot your death will be a glory, a peace, an adventure, a journey into a new world.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Children, War

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• I can't even begin to explain how important it is to all the people who have been involved in our program, and built it to where it is today. I can't believe we won. I can't believe we have the gold medal.

  Lauren Jackson

  Basketball, Believe, People

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• We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.

  Kerri Walsh

  Volleyball, Home, Years

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• We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal.

  Kerri Walsh

  Volleyball, Winning, Journey

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• I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.

  Sheila E.

  Running, Winning, Years

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• I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn't. And it's never fun. It's all to easier though when I don't like somebody or when they're really, really bad then it becomes much easier.

  Donald Trump

  Fun, Winning, Fire

  "Donald Trump and Bret Michaels Discuss Celebrity Apprentice". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 3, 2010.

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• 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

  Sports, Winning, Talking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

  Ai Weiwei

  Men, Judging, Gold

  "Gold Is Not the Real Measure of a Nation". www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2008.

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• The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Country, Winning

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• I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

  Yuna

  Winning, Ice, Games

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• And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to strive for. I love my silver medal, because it stands for all my dreams and all I'm still capable of fulfilling

  Michelle Kwan

  Dream, Gold, Realizing

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• The favorite to win the Olympic gold medal in archery is a legally blind athlete from South Korea, mainly because everyone else is too scared to compete next to him.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Athlete, Winning

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• Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our debt.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Winning, London Olympics

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• So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Home, Athlete

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• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Horse

  "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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