Olympic Medals Quotes

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal.

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

I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.

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.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

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.

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.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.

The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

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.

Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize." If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

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.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.

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

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

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.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

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

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

Never put an age limit on your dreams.

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure intentions. I came from a true sport, an Olympic background, winning multiple national, international and Olympic medals. So I entered MMA as a sport.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

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.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.