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.
