Medal Quotes - Page 2

• For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. It's that interest and exploration that make running fun for me. It's easy to become outcome-focused; for me the unfoldment of self is what is meaningful in running and outlasts any medals.

  Lorraine Moller

  Meaningful, Running, Art

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• If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

  Carl Lewis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• Medal of Honor belongs to every man and woman who gives us the freedom today to be able to hold our flag and hold our heads up high and say we have the greatest country in the world. And that goes with the men and women in the past, and the men and women of today, and the men and women of the future. As long as Mike Thornton lives, that medal will always stand for all them. Not for me. Not for what I've done, but for what I was trained to do and what they have been trained to do to give us our freedom today.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Country, Past, Men

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

  Jessica Ennis

  Thinking, Winning, Ideas

  "Jessica Ennis: 'I'm getting to that point where I'm ready to peak'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2012.

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• This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Kissing

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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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• 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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• I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

  Bryan Volpenhein

  Bronze Medal, Bronze, Disappointed

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• I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

  Yohan Blake

  Games, Alright, Ifs

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• As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Soccer, Stars, Player

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

  Mitch Gaylord

  Memories, Team, Bronze Medal

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• Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

  Sebastian Coe

  Athlete, Next Week, Years

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• Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.

  David Rudisha

  Warrior, Leader, Gold

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• My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Life, Sports

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• The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

  David Rudisha

  Winning, Careers, Missing

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• I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Lying, Winning, Night

  "Obama's nuclear strutting and fretting" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2010.

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• If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

  Michael Phelps

  Disappointment, People, Gold

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2004.

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• We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

  Lauren Hutton

  Birthday, Growing Up, Wrinkles

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

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• And I know what confidence medals can bring.

  Gary Neville

  England, Knows

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• As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he would investigate personally the rumors of mistreatment in Jonestown that reportedly affected so many from his district. Leo Ryan is the 88th recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and only the 4th Member of Congress to receive this high honor from his colleagues.

  Leo Ryan

  Honor, Gold, Rumor

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• An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

  Jeff Fenech

  Athlete, Achievement, Honor

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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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• 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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• Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Rights, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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