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.
