Top 66 Podium Quotes

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she’s inaugurated in January 2017 – but I’m going to be sitting with the senators.

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn’t have the podium. The message that’s delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we’re going to put on because that’s what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That’s just where the culture’s gotten.

People have told me, ‘You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ’cause it’s the workplace,’ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she’s inaugurated in January 2017 – but I’m going to be sitting with the senators.

I don’t think I need to stand on a podium and say what kind of performance I’ve given in ‘Yatra’ or any other film.

I have a running daydream about winning an Oscar and giving my speech about how ridiculous it is to rank art. And then I’d call them all sycophants and leave the statue at the podium as I walked away.

I tried not to cry on the podium, I tried to enjoy this moment. I did enjoy Rio but was trying to go well that I didn’t really, it’s a bit overwhelming.

I’m supposed to share the Lord with people. All of us are disciples on some level. You don’t have to be behind the podium to tell a story, connect with people and share the Gospel.

When you’re so close to winning and you have to stand on the podium and listen to someone else’s anthem, it leaves just a little bit of that bittersweet feeling.

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

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!

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.

A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

I take his talent and his passion with me – to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather’s dream. I am a player.

I’ve always found it funny in life when you meet people who are incredibly stupid and incredibly confident at the same time. Actually, there is nothing funnier. I mean, Donald Trump is a perfect example: he’s essentially a seven-year-old on a podium.

It’s always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

Trump can’t string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

There’s a time in everyone’s career where you go, ‘Ah, this is hard – how long am I going to have to do this?’ But the rewards are so great. Who gets to go on the podium and hear the national anthem? The whole nation singing! Money can’t buy you that.

In the battle of substance over flash, few to none of the Al Jazeera correspondents are recognizable to U.S. audiences. Many have foreign names and accents; none have best-selling books atop the list or can be heard pounding their shoes on the nightly infotainment podium.

I tell our team all the time, nobody once in the history of this great game – nor will they ever, I hope – has stood at a championship stage or podium holding a championship trophy and say, ‘We out-finessed everybody.’

I’ve always known what I wanted. I’ve always wanted to be on top of that podium.

We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.

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.

There are moments when I invoke my dad and think about him on the podium, but in a very positive way. I don’t feel at all intimidated by him. I feel like I’ve found my own voice.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

It’s always great to perform, make the podium, and yeah, gold, silver, and bronze, will also encourage other nations, Asia, America to do better.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he’d walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?

At the end of the day, standing on the Olympic podium on the top is what we’re all really searching for here.

I have my Grade 1 autobiography that says I’m going to the 2012 Olympic Games, and it has a picture of me on the podium. So, I’ve known my whole life. It’s not something I just thought of. I’ve known I would be an Olympic athlete; didn’t know what sport, but I drew myself in a judo gi.

Any race, I’m always going for the top step on the podium.

A World Cup is always special because it is the highest podium on which you can show your abilities as an individual player or coach, and as a team.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I’m the only one who’s going to be held liable if it’s not accurate.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it’s not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it’s girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

I can’t stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I’m the best. I just think I’ve been the luckiest of all. Yes, I’m talented. The movies that I’ve chosen and the way they’ve fared have also helped. I’ve always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there’s been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that’s why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.

I miss winning. I miss being on the podium.

The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That’s kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.

When I started my program… there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o’clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

I remember seeing the Olympics when I was 13. I always wanted to know how it felt to stand on top of the podium hearing your country’s anthem while watching your flag being raised in something you poured your heart and soul into.

When Dudamel is up on the podium, he truly is ‘inside’ the music. It courses in his veins, mixing with his blood.

The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.

For me, personally, getting a podium is not as important as feeling super comfortable on my skiing.

When I broke my leg, I never thought I’d ever be skating again let alone be standing on a world podium. I had to relearn how to skate, relearn how to even stand on one foot again. I had to relearn all my technique.

I want to be the guy that’s taking names, on the podium, and winning events.

I covered the White House during the Bush years when Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan and Dana Perino were at the podium. We thought those were, at times, crazy press briefings, asking questions about major events like the Iraq War and the leaking of Valerie Plame’s name and the outing of her as a CIA operative.

You never want to concede a place, but when you’re leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!

Every team should have the chance to go on the podium, that would make it interesting. I believe that.

I’m honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, ‘Hey, I’m homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.’ That’s not who I am.