You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.
- Kurt Angle
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.
- Alexis Arguello
One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.
- Howard Bach
Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.
- Howard Bach
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.
- Inge De Bruijn
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
- Bryan Clay
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.
- Sebastian Coe
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.
- Sidney Crosby
You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!
- Christopher Paul Curtis
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.
- Betty Cuthbert
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
Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
- Gabby Douglas
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.
- Jessica Ennis
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
- Dan Gable
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.
- Mitch Gaylord
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 Maytreanor
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
- Wilma Rudolph
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
- Dorothy Hamill
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
- Scott Hamilton
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
- Scott Hamilton
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
- Eric Heiden
I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.
- Eric Heiden
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
- Michael Johnson
To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.
- Shawn Johnson
I used to swim and dream of having a few Olympic gold medals to my name. But that's out of the question now, with the ever-rising price of gold.
- Jarod Kintz
But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
- Olga Korbut
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.
- Hugh Laurie
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.
- Sugar Ray Leonard
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
- Carl Lewis
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
- Nastia Liukin
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
- Rebecca Lobo
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.
- Ryan Lochte
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
I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.
- Diana Lopez
Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
- Jim Mckay
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 Obrien
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.
- Dan Obrien
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
- Dan Obrien
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
- Jesse Owens
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.
- Al Pacino
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
- Sally Pearson
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
- Michael Phelps
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.
- Michael Phelps
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
- Cathy Rigby
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
- David Rudisha
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.
- David Rudisha
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
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.
- Angela Ruggiero
And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.
- Alicia Sacramone
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
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
- Peter Snell
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
London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.
- Hope Solo
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.
- Hope Solo
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.
- Mark Spitz
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
Some men want to win a gold medal, some want a family, some want to be rich, some want to be free, some want to kill other men, and some men want to do the right thing. Me, I only want you.
- Aleksandr Voinov
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
I want to win a gold medal in London.
- Kerri Walsh
I don't know where my first gold medal is.
- Shaun White
To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
- Jordyn Wieber
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
- Laura Wilkinson
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
- Esther Williams
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.
- Venus Williams
- Kurt Angle
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.
- Alexis Arguello
One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.
- Howard Bach
Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.
- Howard Bach
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.
- Inge De Bruijn
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
- Bryan Clay
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.
- Sebastian Coe
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.
- Sidney Crosby
You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!
- Christopher Paul Curtis
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.
- Betty Cuthbert
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
Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
- Gabby Douglas
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.
- Jessica Ennis
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
- Dan Gable
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.
- Mitch Gaylord
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 Maytreanor
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
- Wilma Rudolph
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
- Dorothy Hamill
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
- Scott Hamilton
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
- Scott Hamilton
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
- Eric Heiden
I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.
- Eric Heiden
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
- Michael Johnson
To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.
- Shawn Johnson
I used to swim and dream of having a few Olympic gold medals to my name. But that's out of the question now, with the ever-rising price of gold.
- Jarod Kintz
But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
- Olga Korbut
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.
- Hugh Laurie
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.
- Sugar Ray Leonard
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
- Carl Lewis
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
- Nastia Liukin
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
- Rebecca Lobo
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.
- Ryan Lochte
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
I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.
- Diana Lopez
Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
- Jim Mckay
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 Obrien
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.
- Dan Obrien
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
- Dan Obrien
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
- Jesse Owens
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.
- Al Pacino
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
- Sally Pearson
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
- Michael Phelps
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.
- Michael Phelps
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
- Cathy Rigby
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
- David Rudisha
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.
- David Rudisha
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
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.
- Angela Ruggiero
And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.
- Alicia Sacramone
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
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
- Peter Snell
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
London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.
- Hope Solo
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.
- Hope Solo
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.
- Mark Spitz
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
Some men want to win a gold medal, some want a family, some want to be rich, some want to be free, some want to kill other men, and some men want to do the right thing. Me, I only want you.
- Aleksandr Voinov
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
I want to win a gold medal in London.
- Kerri Walsh
I don't know where my first gold medal is.
- Shaun White
To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
- Jordyn Wieber
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
- Laura Wilkinson
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
- Esther Williams
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.
- Venus Williams
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