Top 222 Medal Quotes

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

One thing I’ve learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it’s really exhausting.

I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

I’ve been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.

I came back to Mumbai with the tag of having assisting the legendary Satyajit Ray. I thought that would be a medal, but it became a disqualification. People thought I would only make serious kinds of cinema.

An Olympic medal in athletics is still a dream for India. Milkha Singh is the torchbearer for young athletes to achieve that goal.

I look at the athletes who have come before me and been so impressed with what they have done and been inspired by what they have done, but I’ve never really looked at the stats of medal counts.

I’d rather have one gold medal and 10 caps than 200 caps and no gold.

Everyone is getting prepared for this, to win the gold medal. I am among them: I want to win the medal.

It’s an amazing thing to hear they’re finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

When I win a gold medal in the Olympics… I would say every pain, tears and screams in training will be worth it.

I wished for just one medal as a junior.

The Medal of Valor is this nation’s highest and most prestigious award for public safety officers.

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.

I’ve always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I’ll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

All that work you put in, it’s so worth it to win a medal.

I’m not fussed about awards. I just want to win a medal and a trophy.

Up until Beijing where I had my greatest victory, I had trained for 16 years of life with a singular goal and singular obsession that I wanted to win gold medal at the Olympics.

Established in 2001, the Medal of Valor is our nation’s highest public safety award. Officers across the nation are nominated by their peers, but only a handful are selected to receive this honor. Traditionally, this process occurs only once a year.

When a player cheats, you can’t have a gold medal, right?

I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote ‘Savage Season,’ and I wanted to write a modern version of that. I had tried the same thing with ‘Cold in July,’ and I wanted to give it another go.

I was fortunate and worked hard to graduate top of my class as a primary school teacher and receive the Vere Foster Award, which is the medal given to the graduate who attains the highest mark in teaching practice.

Revoking Bill Cosby’s Medal of Freedom won’t undo his actions or heal the wounds of his victims, but it will signal to the American people that we will not tolerate such lewd behavior.

At the end of the day, it’s my choice to do the lap. At the end of the day, it was my choice not to be nominated for the Madden medal. I had my last football responsibility as the club Best and Fairest and that’s what I was looking for.

I think javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has a good chance of winning a medal at the Paris Olympics.

I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I started so early, I had this daily training. It developed a focus. It became so natural that it was like a native language for me to play chess. That’s why I didn’t feel pressure.

To stand up to worldwide competition, we need a very strong set-up at home that produces athletes right from the beginner’s level and has the sustained back-up for the same athlete to finally go and win an Olympic medal.

It would mean a lot, but it’s weird, because what’s the title? It’s an extra line on your Wikipedia page and a medal that says you won on that particular night. It obviously symbolizes more than that, but those are the things people think about.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I’d be lying if I said that’s not what I wanted.

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

It’s incredible in our sport how small the differences are, and we are all aware of that. We’re all on a high level and skiing well, and at the end, it’s just hundredths that count. Maybe it’s just one finger or a hand can change the color of a medal.

Every time I go on to the court, people expect me to get a medal. It is tough, and I can’t win always, but I still have to go out there and give my best.

I don’t know anybody that is like super close friends but also competing for the same medal. That would be kinda odd.

That’s the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey – and know they can win a gold medal, too.

It has always been a dream to win either the Olympic gold medal or the World Cup.

I don’t know where my first gold medal is.

While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.

From the time I started boxing, my dream was to win an Olympic gold medal. At 10, I can’t say I knew how big the Olympics are. I just knew that every kid in the gym wanted to win an Olympic gold medal. Every kid in every gym probably wants to win an Olympic gold medal.

I’d promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her, and in my mind I was thinking, ‘I can’t let her down.’

Gold medal always feels great. In fact, any appreciation or acknowledgement is a great morale booster.

A gold medal is a goal and something that we’ve never done before as the United States indoor women’s volleyball team.

I ran 10k once. I’ve got a medal.

The motivation will always be there to change the colour of the medal in Paris.

It doesn’t matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I’m still going in to win the gold medal.

My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‘You’re better than the Cassius of old.’

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

I’m actually sort of shocked that I was able to get a medal in 2014 and really have any of the success I had before because as soon as I came out, it was like a whole new world for me, and I felt so free, so confident, that it’s actually shocking that I was able to compete any other way.

I’ve proven that Filipino weightlifters can win a medal in the Olympics.

I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me.

I can’t believe that I just won a gold medal. I think it will take a bit to sink in.

My relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is very clear: respect. We met a couple of times; once I received a medal from him. I respect hugely how he brought Russia back from its knees.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

One thing I learned from the ’88 Olympics: It’s not a question of if they can screw you over: it’s a question of if they will. It’s not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn’t mean anything. It’s that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody’s goal.

If I won another gold medal in 2012, in my home city, imagine that. To be the face of 2012, that’d be unbelievable.

I never won a Vezina Trophy until I won the Olympic gold medal.

I didn’t think I would have an Olympic medal at 21, but I knew I would give my best and play my game. I just viewed it as my first Olympics and that I would take it one match at a time, but to bring a silver home made me very, very happy.

I have some great memories from the Olympics I also have some tough memories from it as well, where I was so close to winning a gold medal.

I won the league at Middlesbrough with Manchester United, and I wore my medal for the next two or three days because I thought, ‘I want this again – and the best want it again and again’.

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.

I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for my country – and getting there was my gold medal.

There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that’s right there on the dashboard.

I slept with my gold medal.

Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.

You can’t just measure yourself solely on winning that medal. It has to be on the everyday experience.

There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, ‘I absolutely have to medal.’

It’s kind of like I won a gold medal with my family.

I’ve never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn’t win an Olympic medal. It’s definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

A lot of skaters hole themselves up in hotels and focus – and that’s great, and that may work for them. But for me, having the Olympic experience was as great as winning the medal. I have so many memories of living in the village and meeting other athletes, seeing other sports, and feeling the energy. It’s so magical.

You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.

I don’t know if it’ll happen four years from now or 52 years from now, but our job is to make an Olympic gold medal happen at some point for the history of the U.S. program.

I’ve dominated past competitions, but I’ve sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I’m fully focused on doing my best.

Anthony Bourdain. He make the food, he make the world news. He know who is the real gold medal. He know what I can do. I know what he can do. He like the Jesus. He the best.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

I have a goal in front of me and that is to achieve a gold medal at the Olympics in air rifle shooting.

When it actually came to everyone clamoring to see the medal and talking about the experience, I began to feel empty inside. I started to feel that this piece of metal was worth more than I was as a person, and I think this began a spiral for me.

I should have got a medal at Neunkirchen, my first club in Germany.

I made a gym, it’s the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I’m sure at least one will win a gold medal.

If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I’m Palestinian, Muslim, I’m female, I’m disabled, and I live in New Jersey.

We came from a poor, poor family and for them to see me winning a trophy in front of 90,000 people and getting a medal would be something.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d’honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don’t like Sarkozy, but that’s ridiculous. I refused because I don’t like decorations – except on women.

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It’s the pinnacle of any athlete’s career.

In 2016 I was fresh and raw and it was grit and determination which got me to the gold medal. Nobody really knew me and what I was capable of.

In 1962, my injury wasn’t because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn’t have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I’d played two games.

Getting a medal is not a small feat, irrespective of what color it is.

From Clara Barton’s tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.

I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

My dad used to be a goalie. He actually won a bronze medal with Team Canada in 1956.

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad’s strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

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.

The only thing better than winning a gold medal is going to Heaven.

London was the hardest Olympic Games, and before it, I was really just hoping to win a medal, even if it was not the gold medal. At the same time, I have my next target. I am not settling for three golds in a row. I now want to try for a fourth.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

I’ve won a world championship, I know how that feels. I don’t know how it feels to win a gold medal. I want to feel that; I want to know that.

When you go to a shooting competition, you don’t know what medal you’re going to finish with.

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I’m standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

One of my proudest moments in life was earning the valedictorian medal in high school. I worked so hard for it!

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn’t want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry – luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

I got a bronze medal and I can’t complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

I certainly wouldn’t be a dental hygienist – they should get the Medal of Honor just to look at people’s gums.

Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.

In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it’s rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we’ve had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.

I’ve seen the success of Mary Kom at the Olympics… We stayed in the same flat. If she can win a medal after being the mother of two, why can’t I?

This medal goes to show that you don’t always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.

The pressure is high because of course… everyone’s expecting me to win the gold medal in Tokyo.

Don’t worry, everyone – I’m not going to be just this silly little idiot who thinks he’s ‘it,’ who has been to the Olympics, won a gold medal and come back thinking he’s ‘it.’ That isn’t me, trust me.

When I participated in Rio Olympics in 2016, I failed to grab a medal. But it was a learning experience.

It’s about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.

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 I compete.

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I’ll have to score like I did today.

It would be nice to win a gold medal and then sit back and watch Mark win one, too.

Dangal’ movie has been made on our lives in which two daughters win a medal for the country. It just shows that the times are changing and people’s attitudes are changing and if it is changing because of us then we are very happy about it.

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors… within about 24 months.

I always come into these competitions hoping to come away with a gold medal. I won’t relax until I have the gold medal around my neck.

After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.

Every Medal of Valor recipient has confronted life-threatening danger. Each had their fight-or-flight moment. But each one stood their ground for our safety. We hold them up as examples to other first responders – and to all Americans.

People say, ‘Wow, you’ve achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.’ And I think, ‘Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?’

I haven’t let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

It is a big achievement to win a medal at the World Cup. Winning a medal is like doing well at Wimbledon, in tennis. It is one of the biggest shooting competitions in the world.

The first time I won a medal at a female wrestling tournament, all of the other girls there had coaches and family members cheering them on. I went in alone, said nothing, wrestled three girls and beat three girls – convincingly.

Once ‘Walk Two Moons’ received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

One minute you’re a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it’s all foisted on you. You never know when it’s going to happen. You don’t think about the media side of things when you’re a young athlete trying to do well.

Getting to the Olympic Games was my gold medal.

That’s what the Olympics is about – getting your name on the wall, and that gold medal.

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it. I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That’s the best way to do beam. It’s important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it’s more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

One of the things I was never thrilled about with ‘Medal of Honor’ was that it was non-stop music.

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.

It has been said that sharing my silver medal with that incident on the victory dais detracted from my performance. On the contrary. I have to confess, I was rather proud to be part of it.

I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the ‘Medal of Honors’ and ‘Call of Duties.’

My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I’ll fight and continue going until I do that.

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

It’s like an addiction: you win one medal and you want to win more.

I really want to win a medal and would want to win gold. It’s my fire and fuel, life and dream, everything.

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.

Of course, I can’t wait until I get the medal and I can walk around the house and say, ‘Daddy, I got you.’

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.

Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that’s the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.

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

After I got my gold medal, I thought, ‘This isn’t just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the fans, everybody who’s impacted my life – this is our gold medal.’ So when someone asks to try it on, I’m like, ‘Sure, why not?’ I might be a little too relaxed about it, but why would I keep it to myself?

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It’ll come together again when they put me down.

I would be so proud to finish my career with a European medal.

My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.

The two things that are probably tied for first are winning a championship with the Mavericks and also being able to win a gold medal – two gold medals with Team USA.

The title ‘black swimmer’ makes it seem like I am not supposed to be able to win a gold medal, I am not supposed to be able to break the Olympic record, and that is not true, as I work as hard as anybody else, and I love the sport, and I want to win, just like everybody else.

I am very happy that Indian women are making their mark in sports be is Sakshi Malik or even PV Sindhu who also won a medal for the country. We talk about women empowerment and there cannot be any bigger example than this.

A medal in Tokyo Olympics is my target, it’s the ultimate for an athlete. I am still young and my best is yet to come.

The SheBelieves was my big moment, my big breakthrough. We had to get on that platform, hold that trophy, and have that medal around our necks.

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

Every time a medal is won on the national or international platform, our country really enjoys winners but we don’t appreciate the effort that goes into creating winners.

The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of ‘Oppression Olympics.’ Gold medal goes to the most offended.

I wanted to win an Olympic medal for my country but because of circumstances, I had to become a professional wrestler. I will have fulfilled my dream if I can support even one kid who wins a medal for the country.

To have this gold medal around my neck is just bonkers and still hasn’t really sunk in.

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

It’s an Olympic Games, at the end of the day, and to represent your country at the Olympics is about as good as it gets. Put a gold medal on top of that, and it doesn’t ever get any better.

Having an Olympic medal validates that you can be a successful freeskier… It’s like a credential that sticks with you the rest of your life.

Playing in the Copa America would be an important thing for me, just like the Olympics, because Brazil has never won the gold medal there.

For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that’s sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

If I wouldn’t have medaled at the Olympics, it still would have been a successful trip. The medal is the icing on the cake.

A world championship medal on the road is something that I’m missing from my CV.

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 basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don’t get a medal for that.

I get to do the fun part which is racing. I get to enjoy the race… I don’t need a piece of medal to remind me of that.

The Manchester games in 2002 was the breakthrough for me because I won my first individual Gold medal and that gave me the confidence to maybe think I could be a world beater.

You’re still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work.

I believe Indian hockey itself is going through a major phase of transformation. We set our sight on winning the gold medal at the Asian Games. We have achieved that.

Anyone would love to have the medal and a major trophy on their CV. When you reach Wembley, you think of the amount of hours you have put in training throughout your life, all the games you have played up to that point, and if you win a trophy, it is there forever as a reward.

To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal – it’s an amazing feeling.

Everything that I did to win a gold medal, I’m practically transferring it over to mixed martial arts.

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don’t need a government agency or a medal that says ‘laureate’ to continue that.

Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.

The Olympics in ’92, I didn’t contribute that much. I had more to do with winning the National Championships than I did the gold medal.

A gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics is what I’m looking for. I have to pace my training in such a way that I’m at my best in Rio, and when I’m in form, no opponent can come in my way.

What I’m going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It’s the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but ‘Harry Potter’, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don’t you?

I hate it. I resent it. I refuse to tell anybody that I am a Medal of Honor recipient. I hate it.

The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.

I’ve learned that winning isn’t everything, and it’s more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it’s not gonna be that way.

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

I am going to keep pushing myself and I would love to get an individual gold medal. That would be amazing.

Rankings aren’t that important to me. I want a winners’ medal.

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

I don’t want to play football for 15 years and not have one trophy or one medal. Sorry, that’s not what I am about. I wouldn’t be happy with that.

‘Witches of East End’ is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But ‘Twin Peaks’ still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we’ll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that’s always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

No matter what, like, I couldn’t – I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That’s what she says all the time.

We surprised ourselves in ’84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn’t yet until we won the gold medal.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it’s amazing.

I worked hard to complete my medal collection.

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India’s national flag going up at the podium.

In 2004 after winning my first Olympic gold medal I was featured in magazines as an eligible bachelor. Soon after I started receiving unique and odd fan mail, mainly from female prisoners. I’ve gotten prison art and love letters throughout the years.

I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.

I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, ‘What do you think you’re going to do in the Olympics?’ and I said, ‘I’m hoping I’m going to win a medal, and, if possible, it’s going to be a gold one.’

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 back with a medal.

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

One medal. One shot. One lap. Eight riders. No lanes. No right of way. Just go.

I won a silver medal. But really, I ended up running the fastest race of my life to become part of something that transcended the Games.

I have a world championship medal from 2014, but I can’t find it. So I’m missing one. I think it’s at my sister’s house. I have to find it.

Winning the 400 meters gold at the pre-Olympics gave me a little confidence. I thought I could win a medal if I tried.

When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn’t take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that’s exactly what our team did.

Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you’re ever likely to see, is its own reward.

I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue – how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women’s gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!

I had a lot of wonderful accomplishments in the game of basketball. Of course, to win a gold medal for your country – it doesn’t get any better than that.

At just 16 years old, I was told that my back would never be the same again. My well-being had been neglected for the opportunity to win a gold medal.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career – mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it’s the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country’s flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.

Winning that gold medal at the Olympics is something I’ll never forget.

I’m not disappointed with bronze. It’s always good to come away with a medal.

Of course I want to bring home a gold medal, and that’s what I’m planning on doing. For me, that’s not pressure. It’s a chance to show the world who I am.

Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America’s most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 – count ’em, 11 – N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.

As long as I get a medal, I’m okay with sharing it.

Watching Nyree Lewis get her medal in the 100 backstroke inspired me to want to go to a Paralympics and it just went on from there.