Medals Quotes
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Medals Quotes & Sayings
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
— Nancy Kerrigan
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
I don't know where my medals are.
— Eric Cantona
Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.
— Jim Lampley
That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
— Mary Lou Retton
The old guard in any society resents new methods, for old guards wear the decorations and medals won by waging battle in the accepted manner.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
— Bode Miller
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
If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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
West Virginia is among the nation's leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor.
— Rick Bragg
Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.
— Gino Bartali
My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.
— Marianne Vos
Maybe he knew it and maybe he didn't, but for someone like me, words like that are worth all the medals in the world.
— R.J. Palacio
The working mothers of America deserve medals.
— Constance Marie
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
There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it's needed.
— Jodi Taylor
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
— Esther Williams
The lines on your face are your medals. You've earned them, so why shouldn't they be worn with honour?
— Cherie Lunghi
I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
— Mary Lou Retton
And I know what confidence medals can bring.
— Gary Neville
They did not hang medals, in those days, on all who by accident had heard a gun fired.
— Rudyard Kipling
I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.
— Gene Vincent
These aren't my scars, cuts, and bruises. These are my medals of honor.
— Bryan Stevenson
From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
— Jamie Redknapp
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
Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success.
— Debasish Mridha
Scars are the awards of success, not the medals.
— Debasish Mridha
After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.
— George S. Day
Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
— Buzz Aldrin
Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!
— Michelle Kwan
Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
— Gabby Douglas
We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.
— Aravind Adiga
Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
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
Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.
— Heinrich Boll
It's not fair, men get to go off and chase around the country and get medals for doing stupid things and women get to sit home and worry.
— Nancy E. Turner
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
— Mary Lou Retton
The dynamic has really changed in the U.S. Americans believe they can be competitive, that they can win medals.
— Alberto Salazar
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
— Eric Heiden
His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.
— Robert Harris
A conqueror's victories are his medals, and his enemies are his trophies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
Because Banshees don't think much of medals!
— Henry V. O'Neil
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
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
— Dan O'Brien
Tough guy, if brooding was a sport, you'd have gold medals with scowling faces lining the walls of your room.
— Julie Kagawa
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In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
— Paul Robeson
We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
— Isaac Marion
Medals hang from his neck in a glittering array, like jewelry, like starts that will now go out because their sun no longer burns.
— Lurlene McDaniel
(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)I swam my brains out. — Mark Spitz
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
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
— Michael Johnson
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
— Ai Weiwei
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
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
— Joseph Heller
I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
— Natalie Du Toit
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
I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
— Paul Gascoigne
Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.
— Eric Shanteau
Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
— Zach Braff
The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals
— Ron Pickering
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
How does it feel to have so many medals pinned to one's chest?""Heavy," he said, and she laughed. — Lisa Kleypas
I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
— Gail Devers
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
Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold.
— Debasish Mridha
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
I have two hands. I can hold two medals.
— Shani Davis
