Gold Medalist Quotes

#1. If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.

Deb Caletti

#2. In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

Dominique Moceanu

#3. My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

Michael Phelps

#4. If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.

Steven E. Landsburg

#5. It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.

Conan O'Brien

#6. You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist!

Kurt Angle

#7. You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

Kurt Angle

#8. All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.

Psy

#9. Kind of what? Gordon challenged, cutting his eyes to Kevin even as a mental image of himself in the back of Aiden's truck popped into his mind. Shredded jeans in a ball on the floorboard and riding the Outlaw with the athleticism of an Olympic gold medalist in ass fucking.

Santino Hassell

#10. One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

Howard Bach

#11. After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

Kim Yuna

#12. I'm living a dream. I hope in 10 years people will know me as a gold medalist.

Jennie Finch

#13. I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.

George Foreman

#14. From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Virgil

#15. If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#16. I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

Paloma Faith

#17. Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained.

Robert Drew

#18. Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so.

Nick Hornby

#19. I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

Jon M. Chu

#20. What is ahead of me is fueled by the experiences behind me.

Celeste Cooper

#21. Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?"
Alec: " ... God, I think ...

Diane Chamberlain