Top 131 Medals Quotes

My focus will always be my athletic career and winning more medals for the country.

I made the New Zealand team, won medals around the world. I thought, ‘I’m blessed. I’ve got a good talent.’ I had no idea, though, how good I might be. But I loved the sport.

Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that’s what does it for me.

Winning gold and three silver medals at the Paralympic games is something I’ll never forget, but I knew deep down there was still more work to do. I had to continue to redefine what was possible and get back everything that was taken away from me.

During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the ’80s and ’90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold.

When I won medals, I think I was doing something for my employers also. I am making them proud.

I’m a crack shot and I’ve won medals for shooting. But I don’t think I could shoot a person.

What I think is about running faster and faster, and I believe that will translate into medals.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

The goal is not to count medals, it’s just racing the best I can.

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.

I don’t know where my medals are.

Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I’m not focusing on defending the title.

Getting relay medals is just as amazing I feel just as proud to be a part of that as well. But it’s a different feeling, I think, getting an individual gold.

You don’t do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn’t win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

There is not much awareness about fitness in India, unlike other countries. We don’t get too many medals at Olympics; one of the reasons is we don’t have that culture of fitness in India. That is why we decided to start this chain of gyms under my name.

Medals don’t suit me. I’m not that kind of guy.

There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to one person, the champion.

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.

When I started at 15, I never thought about winning nine Commonwealth Games medals.

It’s the duty of the federations to make sure that the funds reach the athletes properly. They need to make sure that the athletes get proper facilities so that they can win the medals for the country.

I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.

I think people will see my medals and my performance for my country and not what I do off the field. They like me because I win for the country and I will continue to do so.

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

I’ve achieved my dream of getting a Paralympic gold medal and I’m very lucky that I’ve been to three Games where I’ve come away with five gold medals.

Going for titles and medals – who wouldn’t want that? Trust me, it’s a much nicer feeling than fighting relegation.

I’m extremely content with my silver and bronze medals. But once I won the gold, I fell in love.

Everyone saw me cry with happiness after I won the Beijing medals. It’s really embarrassing.

I want to win medals for myself.

It’s not me standing on the podium with medals. It’s me being able to walk out with a smile on my face and truly being happy with myself.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

I don’t need a pool room with medals and everything hanging up.

I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They’ve been earned. They’ve been fought for – so there’s no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it’s to do with what’s inside you. You can’t obsess about the outside.

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

A few years after I finished skating, someone asked where my medals were. I’m like, ‘In a suitcase somewhere.’ Now they’re nicely displayed in an ice rink, but medals don’t really mean that much. It’s the experience, the story of the skating, the love.

Women’s combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women’s boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well.

Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I’ve won. I’m still the same person. I’m Sheryl.

I’ve been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

I want to thank the public, so I have to keep doing what I do, which is keep winning medals for my country.

In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.

Everybody kept saying I wasn’t going to get any fights. And they wouldn’t put me on TV and they don’t respect women’s boxing. But I also turned professional with two Olympic gold medals and that’s something that no other American boxer has ever done. With that, I’ve been getting a lot of respect.

Players judge their careers based on medals and trophies, don’t they, and they look back on what they have achieved.

I’d rather get a nice warmup suit. That’s something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

You have to be pretty fortunate to do multiple games and have a shot at medals.

You want to be winning trophies, and you want to be winning medals.

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

You can’t really rely on a couple of athletes to deliver you medals in five consecutive Olympic Games. It’s absolutely unrealistic. You have to have a system in place where you continue to increase the depth of the sport which pushes performance levels to higher standards.

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

It was those medals I won at Kottayam that gave me the confidence to dream it big in athletics.

I want these medals to be for everyone, not just myself.

Honestly, it’s not the medals that I feel so proud of. It’s the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

It’s always good to get a wake-up call and a reminder that you can’t just go there and collect medals.

Two gold medals and two silver, I don’t think is that bad… I think I still did a pretty good job.

When I came back on the rink in 2012, I set a goal of wrapping up my career well rather than just winning medals. I’m not preparing for any special skills for Sochi because I don’t feel like they are necessary.

I want more gold medals. I only got two in Rio so it would be nice to make it four.

I’m not a celebrity. I’m just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.

I want to jump far all the time and go out there and win medals.

I’ll relish playing at Wembley in a major cup final. It’s a great achievement for me, and it’s why I became a footballer, because I want to win medals.

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 don’t know what the point of life is, but I’m certain that five gold medals is not it.

You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I’ve learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.

But I’m after medals more than anything. Championships don’t get taken away from you but records do, so I think I’d rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I’m still only 25 in 17 days.

The lines on your face are your medals. You’ve earned them, so why shouldn’t they be worn with honour?

Success breeds success and the more you are around a healthy and thriving athletics team, the more the people who only think they can make semi-finals will be inspired to want to aim for finals and go for medals.