For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
Someone named Gold has never won gold, I’m told.
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
India’s blood and India’s gold was sought and unfortunately given – given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation.
Obviously I struck gold with ‘Deadwood.’ No pun intended.
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
Everything I do is for a gold medal for this country.
‘Esquire Magazine’ just gave me ‘Father of the Year’. I’ll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that’s why they gave it to me.
‘Fields of Gold’ is my favourite record.
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare’s glittering gold and gleaming gems.
I bought a dodgy gold ring off a guy in Southampton. He told me to check it was real gold by heating it up with a lighter and pressing it against my skin, because real gold doesn’t burn. I still have the scar on my left hand.
This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I’ve spent on my professional career.
It means a lot to be an Olympian. I’m obviously so grateful and feel so lucky I was able to achieve my dream of winning an Olympic gold medal.
My salvation was a free gift. I didn’t have to work for it and it’s better than any gold medal that I’ve ever won.
All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
My mom wears a lot of gold.
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.
Our goal is to set the gold standard when it comes to compliance.
If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.
If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.
I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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.
The ‘Raining Gold’ video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about someone or a situation just because it looks a certain way on the surface.
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
If you’re winning Super Bowls, things like gold jackets can follow.
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.
You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
For like everyday, just kind of hanging out, I love flannels. Part of my closet, there’s a whole section of flannels because I love them so much. Slouchy, oversized hats and fedoras. I just got these 2 amazing hats that I really love, blue and gold trim with woven material by D&Y. I love D&Y hats.
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
I’ve been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.
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.
One thing that’s unique to ‘Uncharted’ is something called ‘chasing picture,’ where Naughty Dog run a section of gameplay and I’m allowed to ad-lib over it. We call it ‘panning for gold.’
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren’t dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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.
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.
One of my favorite things about traveling is experimenting with different workouts in different gyms. If I can’t get to a Gold’s Gym, and I’m stuck in a small hotel gym, and it’s only got a medicine ball and a treadmill, how am I going to make sure I get a decent workout from this environment? I love that challenge.
We feel like we’re the Olympic gold medallists and we have the opportunity to bring that gold home. That will be our goal and short of that we would probably be disappointed.
I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, ‘You could stick a gold through your front teeth!’ Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can’t. I’ve tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound.
Where I’m from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of ‘cashed-up Bogans,’ you know, people with no class but a lot of money.
The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.
As far as my solo record, I don’t want a gold record or anything, I’m happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you’re a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don’t buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.
After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.
Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
I was determined my 4,000th winner would be in the green and gold colours of J. P. McManus and trained by Jonjo O’Neill, who have been my greatest supporters.
‘Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
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.
I ain’t going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I’ve got to work hard to keep what I’ve got. Nothing comes easy to me. It never has.
I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I’m the happiest person right now.
That’s something that I never thought I would have in a million years. We’ve done Gold before with ‘Used To Love You Sober,’ which I thought was awesome, but you don’t realize once you get to Platinum, and you see the number difference between 500,000 and a million.
Paul Ryan is the gold standard for conservatism.
Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.
It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won a gold medal as well in Beijing. I have had a good run at the Olympics.
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.
If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it’s like having Gandalf’s staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It’s a talisman of such power.
The dark areas, the ‘mare’ plains of the moon, are so incredibly smooth that the English astronomer Thomas Gold has suggested that they might really be depressions filled to the brim with dust. A rocket hit would show whether they are that or not.
