Quotes About Podium

#1. I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

Abby Wambach

#2. The podium can wait because
I already have the greatest win of my life right here in my arms.

Samantha Towle

#3. I don't feel like promising big things to my fans. I'm not thinking about victory at all. I'll do my best to get on the podium at least, although I must admit I feel fairly pessimistic.

Michael Schumacher

#4. The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

Ken Block

#5. I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

Kathy Reichs

#6. The Constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment," I told him when he
stepped down from the podium.
"What?" he innocently asked. "Getting you out of the library? I believe it's
due time, Sentinel."
"Now that I'm a real, live vampire?"
"Something like that,

Chloe Neill

#7. The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Mitch Gaylord

#8. The cancer was back, this time pressing at the base of my brain stem." His hands tighten on the sides of the podium

Lauren Oliver

#9. When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

Oksana Chusovitina

#10. I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Elizabeth Berkley

#11. I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.

Jennie Finch

#12. Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

Lynn Coady

#13. President Richard E. Neff stood behind a podium that had the seal of the president of the United States displayed boldly in front. Why

D.J. MacHale

#14. Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

Lauryn Hill

#15. Julie McGuire gazed intently from her table in the filled-to-capacity dining room of the Wyndham Hotel. The Love To Murder Mystery Conference had saved the best for last. New York Times bestselling author, Tyler Jensen, now approached the podium. His entire bearing commanded attention, from

Morgan Mandel

#16. For me, personally, getting a podium is not as important as feeling super comfortable on my skiing.

Julia Mancuso

#17. Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

Elizabeth Berkley

#18. My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.

Valentino Garavani

#19. I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

Damon Hill

#20. When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#21. Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.

Dominique Moceanu

#22. Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart.

Tyler Hamilton

#23. Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.

George Stigler

#24. A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#25. The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.

George Foreman

#26. Having occupied both sides of the podium, I greatly prefer no podium at all. Just a conversation between reader and author.

Oran Kangas

#27. Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

Steve Carell

#28. Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.

Manu Ginobili

#29. If you come off the start in a final in fourth or fifth, realistically, the best you can probably do is a podium - squeeze second, third. The chance of you winning at any major race if you get cut off down the hill is pretty remote.

Tory Nyhaug

#30. I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

Gracie Gold

#31. It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer - I am merely a word criminal.

Murong Xuecun

#32. Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.

John P. Kotter

#33. I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

Hope Solo

#34. It's always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

Romain Grosjean

#35. Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Kurt Browning

#36. You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!

Romain Grosjean

#37. It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

Lance Armstrong

#38. I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Jane D. Hull

#39. Bellport. A podium.

Nora Ephron

#40. I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.

Alexi Lalas

#41. Paths. Curiosities lurked around every corner. A man belched flames from a podium. The scent of fried cakes and popcorn hung sweet and heavy on the air, tantalizing until it became sickening. And

Madeleine Roux

#42. I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

Svetlana Khorkina

#43. I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it's always the love that gets me to the podium.

Julia Mancuso

#44. I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

Brittany Bowe

#45. Anytime you're on the podium, it's good.

Lindsey Vonn

#46. As our country bled ... its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.

Corazon Aquino

#47. He presses his forehead down on the podium and I watched his shoulders shake, and then finally, he said, "Goddamn it, Augustus, editing your own eulogy."
"Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus," Gus said.

John Green

#48. A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

Lynn Coady

#49. An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

Leonard Slatkin

#50. When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.

Jay Carney

#51. God has provided you a stage and a podium to make him known.

Jonah Books

#52. The goal for me is the Olympics. It's Sochi and doing my best there. And, you know, my best has the potential to be on the podium.

Jeremy Abbott

#53. When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.'

Hayden Panettiere

#54. In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

Bode Miller

#55. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

Matthew De Abaitua

#56. If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

Bobby Orr

#57. I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

Saina Nehwal

#58. The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.

Michelle Rodriguez

#59. I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

Gregory Maguire

#60. Fidel was in the middle of a much-publicised campaign against bureaucracy. A few weeks later, he was back on the podium: "Comrades, the campaign against bureaucracy has itself become bureaucratised," he thundered.

Mike Arkus

#61. Above the podium stood a decorated board showing the agenda for the day. The first item of business was the world urban crisis, the second - the ecology crisis, the third - the air pollution crisis, the fourth - the energy crisis, the fifth - the food crisis. Then adjournment.

Stanislaw Lem

#62. We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

Michael Irvin

#63. I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.

Betty Shabazz

#64. Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

Ari Fleischer

#65. I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium.

Sarah Hughes

#66. When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

GZA

#67. Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?

Robert Ripley

#68. I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player.

Brad Paisley

#69. I'm supposed to share the Lord with people. All of us are disciples on some level. You don't have to be behind the podium to tell a story, connect with people and share the Gospel.

Trai Byers

#70. Whether your gift is mighty or humble, whether you exercise it in the marketplace or at the podium, in the executive suite or in the schoolroom, in the office or at home, your main task or gift or ministry is to be a light in a dark world.

Gigi Graham

#71. The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.

Abby Wambach

#72. Just looking at Palin up on the podium doesn't impress me. She looks like a chief flight attendant on a Piedmont flight from Winston-Salem to Cleveland, with only the bag of almonds and the polyester kerchief missing from the picture. With

Matt Taibbi

#73. As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Scott McClellan

#74. Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

Tim Kaine

#75. When I started my program ... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

Sarah Hughes

#76. After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

Carl Lewis

#77. A leader gathered his thoughts before he spoke; he did not rush to the podium to be adored. Ego, after all, was the root of evil.

J.R. Ward

#78. I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

Hannah Kearney

#79. His two podium candidates looked like two blokes who had just got up from the Christmas buffet.

Bjarne Riis

#80. I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

Megan Jendrick

#81. If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

Kim Collins

#82. The important thing is to learn through experience.
The more you do the more you learn. I don't think
anyone can teach acting from a podium.

Rex Harrison

#83. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium.

John F. Kerry

#84. I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!

Dominique Moceanu

#85. The range had been exceptional. An apartment balcony fourteen hundred yards away had been identified as the rifleman's hide. Fourteen hundred yards is more than three-quarters of a mile. The French president had been at an open-air podium behind

Lee Child

#86. I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

Fred Durst

#87. Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.

Rick Perry

#88. And so, as the mob backs away to give them space ... as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as a sonata, Connor Lassiter holds his family like he'll never let them go.

Neal Shusterman