(614 quotes found)
“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
Dan Gable
“Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“My compositions deserve the medal, not me.”
Elliot T. Carter
“After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.”
Col George Day
“A chest full of medals is nothing more than a resume in 3-D and Technicolor.”
Owen Edwards
“I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start.”
Frode Andresen
“On the whole, to capture the bronze medal is really what we wanted. Especially since we graduated 75 percent of last year's team. It was quite an improvement against some very difficult teams. Huntington and Brentwood brought back their entire team from last year. Overall it was a good day.”
Herb Mones
“[Breaking his neck] was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.”
Mark Zupan
“Status symbols are medals you buy yourself.”
Bernhard Wicki
“We weren't sure that we were even going to be here. To now be here and have a medal around our neck, it's amazing.”
Ben Agosto
