Quotes of: Olympic-medal Keyword

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

McKayla Maroney

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

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as wel...

Inge de Bruijn

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

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

Shawn Johnson

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

Nastia Liukin

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

Esther Williams

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave...

Don Yaeger

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come ba...

Vijender Singh

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, dr...

Aravind Adiga

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

Mary Lou Retton

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

Marianne Vos

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

Ashley Wagner

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

Bela Karolyi

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.

Clara Hughes

Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win ...

Lolo Jones

I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when ...

Yuna Kim

Reach into your heart and find the gold in it. Mine is shaped like an Olympic medal. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

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

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

Gracie Gold

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

Dan O'Brien