Medal Quotes - Page 3

• Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

  Howard Bach

  Gold, Veteran, Gold Medals

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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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• For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

  Bryan Clay

  Motivation, Winning, Long

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• I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Winning, Gold

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• Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

  Jaime Pressly

  Girlfriend, Gymnastics, Bronze Medal

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

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• London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

  Hope Solo

  Winning, Gold, London

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• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  Kate Mara

  Dream, Flying, Feelings

  "Need to Meet: Kate Mara". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

  Lindsey Shaw

  Pages Turning, One Direction, Lgbt Pride

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• I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

  Mark Zupan

  Soccer, Hurt, College

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• The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Rewards

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

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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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• 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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• The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Military, Distance, Army

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• Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Winning, Giving

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• Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Simple, Return, Goodness

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• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. Pbscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace.

  Herbert Marcuse

  War, Hippie, Hair

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Cells, Jail

  "Against the Gods?: A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism (The Costs of False Ethics)". Book by Stefan Molyneux, 2010.

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• You don't need to win every medal to be successful.

  Jason Fried

  Successful, Winning, Needs

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• The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.

  Jim Sheeler

  War, Stories, Conflict

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• Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Winning, Gold, Gold Medals

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• An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Should Have, Looks, Might

  "Paula Radcliffe hoping to finish 'crappy year' with success in Berlin" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  Laura Wilkinson

  Winning, Goal, Gold

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• More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

  Aaron Huey

  Children, War, Iraq

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• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.

  Simon Sinek

  Running, Race, Sight

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.224, Penguin

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