Medal Quotes - Page 15

• The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gold, United States, Adoration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm having a wonderful time in training. It's so funny because you go through ups and you go through downs. People have to realize that my career started on a down. I got ripped off a Gold Medal at the Olympics but it didn't stop me and it made me a better person.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Careers, People

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• I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal Of Honor. It's the best endorsement you could get as a moviemaker.

  Robert Osborne

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster!

  Bonnie St. John

  Fall, People, Gold

  "Bonnie St. John – Getting Up After a Fall". Interview with Chris Attwood, healthywealthynwise.com.

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• I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

  Alexis Arguello

  Kids, Fighting, Winning

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• This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

  Michael Phelps

  Swimming, Gold, Firsts

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• In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Gold, Gold Medals

  Source: www.hockeycanada.ca

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• Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, London Olympics, Yesterday

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• Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Jesus, Lying, Real

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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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• The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  1975 Humboldt's Gift.

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• The Romneys have a horse competing in the Olympics. Ann Romney's horse failed to win a medal in the dressage event today, which is a shame because if there's one thing that family needs, it's more gold.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Horse, Winning

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• I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.

  Tom Kite

  Golf, Silver, Tournaments

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• The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Games

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

  Nigel Starmer-Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• It was a great Olympics - Team USA finished the games with 17 more medals than China. China said it was tough to swallow - especially when they had to make all of our "We're #1" T-shirts.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Team, London Olympics

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• This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

  S. J. Perelman

  Book, Awards, Together

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• Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Soccer, Team

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• We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

  Esther Williams

  Winning, Olympic Medals

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• Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

  Samantha Stosur

  Sports, Years, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal.

  Keeth Smart

  Olympic Medals

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• You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Spring, Winning

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• Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

  Kenny Anderson

  Congratulations, Winning, Offering

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• No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong.

  Henry James

  Hurt, Pain, Confusion

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.318, University of Chicago Press

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• What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Evil, Hats

  "Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes" by Edward Hutton, (p. 65), 1922.

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