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.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after me.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.

I enjoyed watching ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ very much. Many such sports films should be made so that the upcoming generation draws inspiration from the sportspersons of our country, win medals at the Olympics and Asian Games, and make India proud.

I know I’m enough with or without the gold medals. I just love to swim.

There’s no medals for trying. This isn’t like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That’s what we do.

I wasn’t put here to win gold medals or national championships. I’ve been placed here to be a light for Christ.

The working mothers of America deserve medals.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Getting three gold medals is something I’ll really cherish.

It motivates me that people rate me so highly and want me to do well, which is a good feeling. Personally, I don’t think about milestones or medals, but like to take each competition as it comes and focus on doing my best and becoming better with each competition.

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d’Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

As someone who went to school in the ’70s and ’80s, I can’t say that I noticed much of a ‘medals for all’ culture myself.

Medals are decided on the day, not before that.

Winning HOYS set me up for the future and prepared me for riding in front of lots of people, but the real highlight was the London 2012 Olympics. Being able to go out in front of thousands of people, on your home ground, representing your country and winning gold medals is something I’ll never be able to beat.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

I feel, at the national level, shooters should get monetary rewards also, along with medals and a handshake.

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

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 am not interested in medals or titles. I don’t need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

I wouldn’t swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

I want to tell all the youngsters in Nagpur and in the rest of India that sports is not merely about winning medals; it is about being fit and healthy. It is not about six-packs and going to gym, but exercising right and eating intelligently.

People win medals in all shapes and sizes! And I can’t help but say that finding a fiance who loves me unconditionally at any size has played a huge role in my body confidence.

Most people would snap your arm off to do what I’ve done, but for me to be able to say my career was successful, I need to have some trophies and some medals in my cabinet when I finish.

My ultimate dream was to get to the Olympics. I never thought I would come away with two gold medals.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

When a top club comes calling, who you know will be firing on all fronts with competitions and medals, that’s ultimately what you want to be playing for.

I’ve been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it’s all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

I’ve gone through a lot in my life, I have seen a lot of struggles and difficulties. I have braved it all and won medals for my country with my determination.

I’m a guy who wins medals rather than runs fast times, so for me, what keeps me going is winning medals for my country and making my nation proud.

We have won laurels for the country in wrestling but still, in spite of winning medals, not many people recognised us.

We have regularly won medals at all tournaments and I think after ‘Dangal,’ the craze for wrestling increased among the girls.

I played to the best of my ability. Played to win and was fortunate enough to have won a Stanley Cup and a couple gold medals and played on some really good teams… I’m not going to look back and say I wish I could have done this or that.

I have got lots of silver medals, from Delhi in 2010 and London in 2012, so it would be nice to pick up some golds, and the Commonwealth Games is a great place to start.

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.

Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.

2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we’re made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and – let’s not forget – punched way above our weight in the medals table.

We’re going through the Olympics. We’re watching women working as teams. We’re watching men working as teams. We’re watching all working as teams. We’re proud of men and women getting medals. That’s how the Navy should be working.

Medals were – and always will be – the best thing to show your accomplishments in football.

My mom has never cared if I did sports or not. Obviously, she’s proud of me, and she loves the fact that I’m an Olympian and she’s got these trinkets to hang around with the medals and whatnot. But if I wanted to do whatever, if I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer or whatever, she was going to support me regardless.

We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.

In high school and college, I gathered a number of medals for marksmanship, but I have long since abandoned this activity, having concluded that the world would be a better place with fewer sharpshooters.

What drives me is winning medals and going out there and enjoying it.

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I’ve had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

At the Usha School of Athletics, our sole aim is to earn Olympic gold medals for India.

When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I’ve gotten maybe 20 medals. They’re glorious, and there’s a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.

We’re a miserably violent species. But there’s a complication, which is we don’t hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it’s the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it’s the right kind of violence, we love it.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That’s sad.

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

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.

Without wishing to sound arrogant, when I was younger, I used to win every single martial arts tournament I ever entered. I used to enter the under 14s and under 16s, win both gold medals in those, and then go in the men’s tournament just for experience, and end up getting a silver medal.

Obviously, the skaters in generations before us didn’t have the opportunity to win multiple medals at an Olympic Games. We recognize that.

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

When I won gold medals in both the 200m and 400m events at the 1958 Asian Games, the then chief of army staff, General K.S. Thimayya, announced my promotion as a junior commissioned officer.

The gold medals from world championships and National Games prove the efficiency of my daily training.

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

Our under-19s, under-20s, under-17s teams are all getting into Euro finals, World Cup finals, winning bronze medals. We’re winning bronze medals; it’s about that final step now. We’ve got to punish teams. In every game – youth games, senior games – just to push the game further.

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book ‘War is a Racket.’

I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

When you turn professional with the amount of medals that I’ve won, then you have to assume that big things are expected of you and I’ve always tried my best to live with that.

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

Nobody talks about my contribution to the sport. Nobody talks about the 101 medals I have won in my 20-year career. Nobody talks about the efforts I made to attain those heights.

Something that I saw in Sochi that I didn’t get the opportunity to have in Vancouver was the team holding hands with arms in the air and medals around their neck.