Medallist Quotes

#1. My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

David Rudisha

#2. Being the first Olympic medallist of my country means that I have some obligations and it was a very tough job for me to resume a proper training schedule due to the (new) status I have in my country.

Benjamin Boukpeti

#3. During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

Daley Thompson

#4. I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

Gagan Narang

#5. I want to be European, world and Olympic gold medallist.

Jade Jones

#6. Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

George A. Sheehan

#7. [About John Evershed] There is much in our medallist's career which is a reminder of the scientific life of Sir William Huggins. They come from the same English neighbourhood and began as amateurs of the best kind. They both possess the same kind of scientific aptitude.

Hugh Newall

#8. The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.

Roland Barthes

#9. Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

Durgesh Satpathy

#10. Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

Alfred North Whitehead

#11. With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

Ben Elton

#12. It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.

Sophie Arnould

#13. Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

Steven Spielberg

#14. In the fight between you and reality, be discouraging.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#15. Use the pain and anger to create something beautiful.

N.L. Gervasio

#16. And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Michael Bloomberg

#17. Consider any year, that has been so unfruitful that many thousands have died of hunger; and yet if, at the end of that year, a survey was made of the granaries of all the rich men that have hoarded up the corn, it would be found that there was enough among them to have prevented all that consumption

Thomas More

#18. Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

Alessia Cara

#19. Of course I'd be happy to give you my opinion because it increases the odds of me being able to say, "I told you so" in the future.

Jessica Park

#20. We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

Walter Lippmann

#21. Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

Eric Hoffer