Gold Medals Quotes - Page 5

• Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.

  Carli Lloyd

  Winning, Thinking, Numbers

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hero, Winning, Dragons

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• An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Loss, Swimming

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• Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

  Michael Johnson

  Cocky, Shoes, Gold

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• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

  Dan O'Brien

  Winning, Special, Gold

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• Sri Chinmoy brings Heaven to me. He inspires everyone to be happy. He deserves the biggest gold medal.

  Emil Zatopek

  Heaven, Inspire, Gold

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• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  Hannah Kearney

  Winning, Gold, Firsts

  "Exclusive: Gold Medal Winner Hannah Kearney On Her Olympic Experience" by Hannah Kearney, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal.

  Gabby Douglas

  Dream, Mean, Hard Work

  Source: pridepublishinggroup.com

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• Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Hockey, Gold

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• Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal on home soil is an honour in itself. There is no doubt in my mind that we were prepared for whatever it was going to take. And I think that we battled hard and we had no doubt in our mind that if we went out there and played Canadian hockey that we would come out successful.

  Meghan Agosta-Marciano

  Country, Home, Successful

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• We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.

  Cherie Piper

  Hockey, Games, Play

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• That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Motivational, Basketball, Girl

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• I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

  Sidney Crosby

  Country, Dream, Hockey

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• Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

  George Leonard

  Gold, Rewards, Path

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.108, Penguin

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• No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

  James C. Collins

  Success, Dream, Morning

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• Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Athlete, Grandmother

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• I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.

  Yevgeny Kafelnikov

  Winning, Years, Tennis

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• I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist Ghaffari (who broke down in tears on the medal stand) summed up his disappointment after an overtime loss to Aleksandr Karelin of Russia. A win would have given Ghaffari not only the Olympic gold medal but also his first victory over Karelin, something of which he has literally dreamed about after 20 meets between the two. Karelin dominates international competition in the sport.

  Matt Ghaffari

  Sports, Disappointment, Loss

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• If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

  Fidel Castro

  Winning, Gold, Events

  "Fidel Castro survived 600 assassination attempts, officials say" by Patrick Oppmann, www.cnn.com. November 26, 2016.

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• I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

  Jesse Owens

  Gold, Four, Medal

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

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• Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Strong, Swimming

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• Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Color, Skins

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Ali (2005). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, Large Print Press

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• It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Al Pacino

  Winning, Feelings, Gold

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• Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Motivational, Leadership, Girl

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• Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gold, Identity, Labels

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