Medalist Quotes

#1. Being an Olympic Medalist was a team effort. So I am honored to be a part of CBS Sports' WE NEED TO TALK cast of iconic women. Being part of a show with some of my broadcasting and sports idols is an honor.

Dara Torres

#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. What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.

Chris Witty

#6. 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

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

Kurt Angle

#8. 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

#9. I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to Sochi ... I want to start anew, not as an Olympic medalist but just as yet another figure skater.

Kim Yuna

#10. 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

#11. I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.

Kim Gruenenfelder

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

Howard Bach

#13. 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

#14. At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.

Saina Nehwal

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

Jennie Finch

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

Deb Caletti

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

Terry Pratchett

#20. When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#21. Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Robert Gottlieb

#22. I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

Jim Morris

#23. I believe he collects different types of stationery,' said Vetinari. 'I have sometimes speculated that he might change his life for the better should he meet a young lady willing to dress up as a manila envelope.

Terry Pratchett

#24. When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Philippe Petit

#25. Miracles are simply a change in perception.

Mark Victor Hansen

#26. Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also

Alfonso Cuaron

#27. Every breathing soul longs to overcome.

Ted Dekker

#28. But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

Sarah Dessen

#29. One doesn't play music; one surrenders to it.

Marty Rubin

#30. The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important ... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

Al Franken

#31. Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?
(Three Penny Opera)

Kurt Weill