Top 67 Winning The Gold Quotes
#1. What if winning the gold medal at the Olympics wasn't the end?
What if ... it was only the beginning?
Amanda Dubin
#2. Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
Frank Shorter
#3. The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.
Louis Bacon
#4. I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
Dan O'Brien
#5. Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.
Sebastian Coe
#6. You never win the silver, you only lose the gold
Shahrukh Khan
#7. Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
Zach Braff
#8. Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.
Ralph Marston
#9. 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
#10. You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.
Simon Cowell
#11. Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare-No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly's dress-No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love in.
Henry Cuyler Bunner
#12. The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.
Marat Safin
#13. I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
Marian Dragulescu
#14. My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.
Debi Thomas
#16. It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it?
Charles Spurgeon
#17. For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'
Gabby Douglas
#18. My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.
Cammi Granato
#19. I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.
Justin Gatlin
#20. Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Sally Pearson
#21. I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.
Lolo Jones
#22. I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.
Luke Donald
#23. The Romneys have a horse competing in the Olympics. Ann Romney's horse failed to win a medal in the dressage event today, which is a shame because if there's one thing that family needs, it's more gold.
Conan O'Brien
#24. It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
Antonio Davis
#25. Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.
Asafa Powell
#26. It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.
Lolo Jones
#27. 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
#28. If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
Fidel Castro
#29. Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.
Carli Lloyd
#30. The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.
David Rudisha
#31. 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
#32. I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.
Donovan Bailey
#33. I had trouble finding my next goal after winning a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but the interest of the public and my fans in me got even bigger. I wanted to get away from the pressure, even for a single day.
Kim Yuna
#34. So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.
Al Oerter
#35. I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
#36. Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
Kim Yuna
#37. 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
#38. I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
Francesco Quinn
#39. We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.
Betty Okino
#40. London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.
Hope Solo
#41. Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American ... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956 ... But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.
John Eliot
#42. Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.
Carmelo Anthony
#43. 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
#44. Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
Dan O'Brien
#45. 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
#46. You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.
Jimmy Rollins
#47. For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off.
Lindsey Vonn
#48. 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
#49. (American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)
I swam my brains out.
Mark Spitz
#50. The favorite to win the Olympic gold medal in archery is a legally blind athlete from South Korea, mainly because everyone else is too scared to compete next to him.
Jimmy Fallon
#51. The Gold Cup really is about getting the job done and winning it and qualifying us for the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017. That's why it's really crucial for us to have players on the roster that have tremendous experience.
Jurgen Klinsmann
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
Seth Godin
#55. Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came over, bowed down, and kissed my hand. It was the most fabulous moment - such a lovely gesture. He didn't say anything.
Helen Mirren
#56. Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.
Michael East
#57. Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
Rebecca Lobo
#58. Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien
#59. 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
#60. I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.
Aleks Paunovic
#61. To win Olympic gold it takes a lot of HARDWORK, a lot of PASSION, a lot of SACRIFICES.
Gabby Douglas
#62. I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.
Kim Yuna
#63. We had two goals ... One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal.
Kerri Walsh
#64. I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.
Dorothy Hamill
#65. Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.
Kim Yuna
#66. 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
#67. The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
Bianca Walkden
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