Top 100 Quotes About Medals
#1. After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.
Brian McClellan
#2. I have two hands. I can hold two medals.
Shani Davis
#3. It's always good to get a wake-up call and a reminder that you can't just go there and collect medals.
Marit Bjorgen
#4. 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
#5. You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
Bill Parcells
#6. God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
#7. No one gives out Congratulations on Not Being a Douche-Canoe medals, because good behavior is part of the social contract.
Jen Lancaster
#8. If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.
Stefan Molyneux
#9. 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
#10. Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
Esther Williams
#13. They did not hang medals, in those days, on all who by accident had heard a gun fired.
Rudyard Kipling
#14. 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
#15. -"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money."
Stone said nothing.
-"Why then? God and country?"
-"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President."
-"What then?"
-"So I can look at myself in the mirror.
David Baldacci
#16. 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
#17. I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
Daley Thompson
#18. The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a $1000 haircut, and wearing a 1970s wig known as 'the Leno.' There are really two sides to this story. And America can't wait for Kerry to present both of them.
David Letterman
#19. The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.
Jim Sheeler
#20. Because here's the secret: in the kingdom of God, as long as you're still fighting, you're winning. God doesn't hand out medals for performance. He hands out crowns for perseverance.
Holley Gerth
#21. Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
Eric Heiden
#23. Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.
Arnold Hano
#24. From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
Jamie Redknapp
#25. When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.
Lavinia Agache
#26. Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
#27. The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
Oliver Goldsmith
#28. Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.
Carolina Kostner
#29. I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.
Michael Phelps
#30. I got to thinking that the world would be a better place if they gave medals to great teachers rather than just soldiers who kill their enemies in wars.
Matthew Quick
#31. Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable
#32. I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
Paul Gascoigne
#33. 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
#35. We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
Esther Williams
#36. We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities.
Tessa Jowell
#37. 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
#38. A man should not measure his success in life by the type of work he does, or by the medals he has won, but by the impact he has had on those around him, especially his family."
-Salvador Ortiz to his son Lazaro
Mark McGinty
#39. I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears
Paulo Coelho
#40. People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.
Emilio Pucci
#41. I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
Marian Dragulescu
#42. I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.
Shawn Johnson
#43. Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game,
Where wasted nations raise a single name;
And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret,
From age to age in everlasting debt;
Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey
To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
Samuel Johnson
#44. For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Mary Lou Retton
#45. I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
Karl Marlantes
#46. Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?
Carol Shields
#47. There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it's needed.
Jodi Taylor
#48. The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.
Conan O'Brien
#49. 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
#50. How does it feel to have so many medals pinned to one's chest?"
"Heavy," he said, and she laughed.
Lisa Kleypas
#51. 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
#52. Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
Phyllis Schlafly
#53. Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
#54. 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
#55. The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Charles Edward Montague
#56. Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
Gabby Douglas
#57. We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.
Cesar Millan
#58. Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.
Lindsey Vonn
#59. 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
#60. 2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.
David Cameron
#61. 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
#64. Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.
Pierre De Coubertin
#65. 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
#66. This is what happens when they give you medals for breaking the rules: you forget the rules apply to you.
Hugh Howey
#67. Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.
Kyle Shewfelt
#68. Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.
Paulo Coelho
#69. I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers' medals we deserve.
Zoe Koplowitz
#70. That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
Mary Lou Retton
#71. Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
Mary Lou Retton
#72. Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights.
Rand Paul
#73. Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
Vance Havner
#74. I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.
Paulo Coelho
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.
George S. Day
#79. On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
Brennan Manning
#80. Queen Bee hates me. I know, as I reach the door, that nothing good waits for me on the other side. When you're called to see the Commanding Officer, you're either getting a medal or a kick in the arse.
And I'm not getting any medals.
John Owen Theobald
#81. I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.
Cherie Lunghi
#82. Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event
Carolina Kluft
#83. Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
Zach Braff
#84. In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. The [IBJJF] medal has zero value. It means as much as this tablecloth right here, but people still kill themselves to try to get those medals.
Ryron Gracie
#86. What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals.
"Holy crap," I said, when she set them on the desk. "You're like a fish."
"Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see."
I saw.
Maureen Johnson
#87. Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world
Allan Donald
#88. An Army is an instrument of government. It must be used in such a way that it furthers the interests of government. Otherwise what use is it? Only an extremely costly machine for ... minting medals.
Joe Abercrombie
#89. Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success.
Debasish Mridha
#91. 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
#92. If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#93. We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
Isaac Marion
#94. Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
Marquis De Sade
#95. A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
Vance Havner
#96. It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.
Tenzing Norgay
#97. 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
#98. Cigarettes took them to medals, which took them to guns, which took them to radios, which took them to jeeps. By midnight, Samad had won three jeeps, seven guns, fourteen medals, the land attached to Gozan's sister's house, and an IOU for four horses, three chickens and a duck.
Zadie Smith
#99. His white admiral's jacket gleamed with medals, nut Loki wasn't exactly wearing it regulation-style. It was open over a black T-shirt featuring Jack Nicholson's face from The Shinnig. The caption read: HEEEERE'S LOKI!
Rick Riordan
#100. I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.
John F. Kerry
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