Quotes About Gold Medals

#1. So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

Conan O'Brien

#2. Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

Ai Weiwei

#3. You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

Diana Lopez

#4. I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

Eric Heiden

#5. Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Esther Williams

#6. You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!

Christopher Paul Curtis

#7. Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

Eric Heiden

#8. Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Dan Gable

#9. But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

Olga Korbut

#10. It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.

Michaela Dorfmeister

#11. Did you know? Duke Kahanamoku competed in four Olympics from 1912 to 1932 setting three world-records, while winning three gold medals, two silver, and one bronze.

John Richard Stephens

#12. It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

Amby Burfoot

#13. Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

Zach Braff

#14. 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.

Carl Lewis

#15. We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

Aravind Adiga

#16. Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

Bernie S. Siegel

#17. Hey Mark Henry, where are your gold medals? We all know that if Mark Henry won a gold medal he'd just take it and have it bronzed.

Jerry Lawler

#18. The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. - Jesse Owens

Adam Goucher

#19. When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

Wilma Rudolph

#20. She left the event with gold medals in the all-around, vault, floor and uneven bars. She also nabbed the silver medal on the balance beam.

Christine Dzidrums

#21. Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.

Sheryl Swoopes

#22. Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

Gabby Douglas

#23. I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

Nastia Liukin

#24. I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn't. And it's never fun. It's all to easier though when I don't like somebody or when they're really, really bad then it becomes much easier.

Donald Trump

#25. It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Dan O'Brien

#26. They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

Michael Johnson

#27. I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

Diana Lopez

#28. Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our debt.

Stephen Colbert

#29. People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no
television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

Jesse Owens

#30. My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

Marianne Vos

#31. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#32. I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

Evgeni Plushenko

#33. You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.

Kerri Strug

#34. Tough guy, if brooding was a sport, you'd have gold medals with scowling faces lining the walls of your room.

Julie Kagawa

#35. The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.

David Letterman

#36. Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

Michael Johnson

#37. The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

Wilma Rudolph

#38. When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.

Linford Christie

#39. Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

Gabby Douglas

#40. I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

Jesse Owens

#41. Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

Misty May-Treanor

#42. Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.

Kim Yuna

#43. I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

Gail Devers

#44. (American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)
I swam my brains out.

Mark Spitz

#45. Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

Alexander Pope

#46. It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.

Eric Liddell

#47. If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

Charles R. Swindoll

#48. I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

Marian Dragulescu

#49. Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold.

Debasish Mridha

#50. Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

Conan O'Brien