Medal Quotes

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

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.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

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.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

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.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

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.