You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.
When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in 2016, and even win a medal, it will be fantastic.
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.
Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.
I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
Cowardly Lion: Read what my medal says: "Courage". Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?
I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.
