Medal Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

  Joseph Hagerty

  Inspirational, Sports, Giving Up

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• According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

  Herbert Wind

  Golf, Edinburgh, Caddies

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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'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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• For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King’s side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin’s memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Memories, Gay

  Barack Obama's speech at Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 20, 2013.

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

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Hockey, Gold

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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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• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Awards, Gold

  Robert Graves (1962). “Oxford Addresses on Poetry”

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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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• I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

  Gianluca Basile

  Basketball, Bronze Medal, World

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• We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.

  Sándor Márai

  Vanity, Who We Are, Life Is

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• We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Military, Men, Justice

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• Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

  Vincent Matthews

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.

  Erick Barrondo

  Home, Athlete, Kids

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• I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Drinking, Men

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.60, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

  Joseph Heller

  Ideas, Class, Tennis

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.

  Craig Ferguson

  Wise, Jesus, Stars

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• I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Differences, Tears

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 09, 2010

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• I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Awards, America

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded. "I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Care, Pedals

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• He put his arms around her. “Well, in my defense, then, whatever I did seemed to work, didn't it?” She sighed. “I suppose.” “You suppose?” “What do you want? A medal?” “For starters. A trophy would be nice, too.” She smiled. “What do you think you're holding right now?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 19, 2012

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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  Venus Williams

  Interesting, Gold, Dresses

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• If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

  Storm Constantine

  Brother, Passion, Dark

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• We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

  Isaac Marion

  Cheer, Sleep, Fog

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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