Medal Quotes

I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

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.

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.

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.

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

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

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 goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'