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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.
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Life has changed after Rio. Winning a silver medal was a huge moment for me. It has come with a lot of responsibilities.
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My dream is to get gold medal both in the world championship and the Olympics.
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It’s an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.
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I made myself a little angry before beam. That’s the best way to do beam. It’s important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it’s more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.
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A gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics is what I’m looking for. I have to pace my training in such a way that I’m at my best in Rio, and when I’m in form, no opponent can come in my way.
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Rankings aren’t that important to me. I want a winners‘ medal.
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While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad’s strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.
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I got an Olympic medal.
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Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won.
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Every time I go on to the court, people expect me to get a medal. It is tough, and I can’t win always, but I still have to go out there and give my best.
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As the president put the Medal of Honor around my neck, I felt the history and the weight of a nation.
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The silver medal is incredible, because we worked so hard for so many years. Sacrificing, absolutely demolishing our bodies for hours a day, 11 months a year, years on end.
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An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.
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I wanted to win an Olympic medal for my country but because of circumstances, I had to become a professional wrestler. I will have fulfilled my dream if I can support even one kid who wins a medal for the country.
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You have got to go through all of the opponents to get to the gold medal.
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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It’s the pinnacle of any athlete’s career.
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London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.
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At just 16 years old, I was told that my back would never be the same again. My well-being had been neglected for the opportunity to win a gold medal.
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Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.
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I’m extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It’s a special moment in my career.
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I’ve always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I’ll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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I showed everyone the medal and they said, ‘Ooh, I can’t believe how heavy it is,’ Sometimes they were more interested in the medal than in me. I was like, ‘Hey, what about me?’
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In 2016 I was fresh and raw and it was grit and determination which got me to the gold medal. Nobody really knew me and what I was capable of.
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For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it’s the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country’s flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
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The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.
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Olympic medals are the one medal that I don’t have; I’ve won just about every other competition that I’ve been at.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody’s goal.
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If it were easy, everybody would have a gold medal, but they don’t.
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I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn’t work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the ‘Medal of Honors’ and ‘Call of Duties.’
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It’s really cool. I don’t know how many people in the world have a silver medal. Maybe a thousand?
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WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.
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I slept with my gold medal.
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Winning the 400 meters gold at the pre-Olympics gave me a little confidence. I thought I could win a medal if I tried.
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Everything I do is for a gold medal for this country.
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I think javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has a good chance of winning a medal at the Paris Olympics.
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Bringing a medal for the country is the biggest achievement, and that is why I am very happy.
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Life has changed both on and off the court after the Rio Olympics medal. I have a lot of confidence on the court now and feel anything is possible. I also feel that I have improved my game. Off the court, I do get recognised more now.
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All that work you put in, it’s so worth it to win a medal.
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Before going to the L.A. Olympics, I had participated in only two competitions in 400m hurdles. Yet I came close to a medal. So if your mind is strong, you can achieve anything.
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I’m going to win a gold medal.
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I was telling somebody the other day that I have had five semi-finals with South Africa and never got to a final. I got to one final with Pakistan and eventually got a medal!
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Getting to the Olympic Games was my gold medal.
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This medal goes to show that you don’t always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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I’m looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it’s going to take to get there.
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I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn’t going to be very satisfied.
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I don’t want to play football for 15 years and not have one trophy or one medal. Sorry, that’s not what I am about. I wouldn’t be happy with that.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.
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If you win even one tournament or medal, people can think they have become big.
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Anyone would love to have the medal and a major trophy on their CV. When you reach Wembley, you think of the amount of hours you have put in training throughout your life, all the games you have played up to that point, and if you win a trophy, it is there forever as a reward.
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I wasn’t really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I’d say.
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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.
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Who wouldn’t be thankful for another medal?
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I certainly wouldn’t be a dental hygienist – they should get the Medal of Honor just to look at people’s gums.
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My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.
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Winning that gold medal at the Olympics is something I’ll never forget.
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It’s like a dream for me, participating in the Olympics, it’s so important for my career and I hope to win the gold medal here.
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Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn’t make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.
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You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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I ran 10k once. I’ve got a medal.
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If it doesn’t mean more to a normal human being like Dan Evans, who could change his life and career by winning not a gold but a bronze medal for Great Britain, if he doesn’t want to take that chance, I would say something is wrong with the Olympics in what it’s worth in tennis.
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A gold medal at the Olympics is hard to top.
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I have some great memories from the Olympics I also have some tough memories from it as well, where I was so close to winning a gold medal.
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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!
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Our big hope is to get to the Olympics and win the first beach volleyball gold medal – if we can make it.
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An Olympic medal in athletics is still a dream for India. Milkha Singh is the torchbearer for young athletes to achieve that goal.
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I’m glad to be partnered with Orgullosa because I feel that now that I’m able to win a gold medal at the Olympics, win a silver medal, I feel little girls will be able to look up to me, and Hispanics will kind of rise a little more.
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Winning a gold medal means you’re the best in the world at that time.
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I never won a Vezina Trophy until I won the Olympic gold medal.
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My only aim is to win an Olympic medal.
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A gold medal is a goal and something that we’ve never done before as the United States indoor women’s volleyball team.
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To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I’m the happiest person right now.
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My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I’ll fight and continue going until I do that.
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My dream is to see an Indian with a gold medal in athletics in the Olympics.
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At the end of the day, it’s my choice to do the lap. At the end of the day, it was my choice not to be nominated for the Madden medal. I had my last football responsibility as the club Best and Fairest and that’s what I was looking for.
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If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I’m Palestinian, Muslim, I’m female, I’m disabled, and I live in New Jersey.
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It’s kind of like I won a gold medal with my family.
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It’s about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.
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Everybody expects me to win the gold medal.
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In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the ‘Post‘, the ‘Post’ won the public service medal two years running.
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When you go to a shooting competition, you don’t know what medal you’re going to finish with.
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A world championship medal on the road is something that I’m missing from my CV.
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I should have got a medal at Neunkirchen, my first club in Germany.
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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.
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It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.
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My first major championships was in 2005, which makes me feel ancient. I’m really proud of playing in all the tournaments, yet I can have all the caps in the world, but there’s no point if you don’t have a gold medal.
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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
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I don’t care anything about being a Medal of Honor recipient, but if I can use that to help veterans get jobs, I will.
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Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America’s most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 – count ’em, 11 – N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.
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I think every fight is a tough fight, but I’m not settling for a bronze medal.
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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.
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I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.
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The Manchester games in 2002 was the breakthrough for me because I won my first individual Gold medal and that gave me the confidence to maybe think I could be a world beater.
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No matter what, like, I couldn’t – I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That’s what she says all the time.
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After I got my gold medal, I thought, ‘This isn’t just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the fans, everybody who’s impacted my life – this is our gold medal.’ So when someone asks to try it on, I’m like, ‘Sure, why not?’ I might be a little too relaxed about it, but why would I keep it to myself?
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I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I’ll have to score like I did today.
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I’m not disappointed with bronze. It’s always good to come away with a medal.
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My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
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Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it’s amazing.
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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.
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The Olympics in ’92, I didn’t contribute that much. I had more to do with winning the National Championships than I did the gold medal.
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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.
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I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, ‘I absolutely have to medal.’
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The World University Games Gold medal was a great confidence booster for me. It highlighted my talents, my performance and dedication.
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The motivation will always be there to change the colour of the medal in Paris.
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If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it’s a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I’m going to be happy.
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To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal – it’s an amazing feeling.
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If I won another gold medal in 2012, in my home city, imagine that. To be the face of 2012, that’d be unbelievable.
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The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that’s a very difficult achievement.
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I didn’t want people to think of me as someone who wasn’t impressed with a silver medal, because obviously that’s a huge accomplishment, and I was so happy. It was more about me just being not impressed with falling at the Olympics in my last event.
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I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
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Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that’s it; your career is over.
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Every time a medal is won on the national or international platform, our country really enjoys winners but we don’t appreciate the effort that goes into creating winners.
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When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn’t take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that’s exactly what our team did.
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I don’t know anybody that is like super close friends but also competing for the same medal. That would be kinda odd.
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I think that I am a serious threat to anybody out there who is trying to get that medal.
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When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.
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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.
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There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.
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I worked hard to complete my medal collection.
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Having an Olympic medal validates that you can be a successful freeskier… It’s like a credential that sticks with you the rest of your life.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
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I want to win a gold medal in London.
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When I win a gold medal in the Olympics… I would say every pain, tears and screams in training will be worth it.
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It’s like an addiction: you win one medal and you want to win more.
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The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in 2016, and even win a medal, it will be fantastic.
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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.
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As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.
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When a player cheats, you can’t have a gold medal, right?
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I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.
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From the time I started boxing, my dream was to win an Olympic gold medal. At 10, I can’t say I knew how big the Olympics are. I just knew that every kid in the gym wanted to win an Olympic gold medal. Every kid in every gym probably wants to win an Olympic gold medal.
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It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.
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Winning the World Cup is definitely the highlight of my career. I thought the gold medal at the Olympics would peak it, but winning the World Cup, the reception… it’s what we all dreamed of when we were little.
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Yeah, that’s what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.
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Mum got a QSM (Queen‘s Service Medal) for her community work in mental health. She was a psychiatric social worker, so she’d travel all around the north visiting people back in the day.
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To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it’s the best feeling in the world.
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Everything that I did to win a gold medal, I’m practically transferring it over to mixed martial arts.
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To have this gold medal around my neck is just bonkers and still hasn’t really sunk in.
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It is a big achievement to win a medal at the World Cup. Winning a medal is like doing well at Wimbledon, in tennis. It is one of the biggest shooting competitions in the world.
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It’s an amazing thing to hear they’re finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn’t. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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My dad used to be a goalie. He actually won a bronze medal with Team Canada in 1956.
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Playing at the Women’s World Cup is my long-term goal and, hopefully, I can contribute to winning a medal.
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Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn’t want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry – luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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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.
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Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
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People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don’t even think about the medal unless someone asks about it.
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I don’t know if it’ll happen four years from now or 52 years from now, but our job is to make an Olympic gold medal happen at some point for the history of the U.S. program.
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My one and only focus at the Olympic Games is to win a gold medal.
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I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don’t have is an Olympic medal.
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
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I had a lot of wonderful accomplishments in the game of basketball. Of course, to win a gold medal for your country – it doesn’t get any better than that.
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I’m really happy that I’ve got the Champions League medal around my neck and the trophy sat by my side.
