“ A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it. ”
- Cool Runnings Movie- Copy
- 2K
“ A chest full of medals is nothing more than a resume in 3-D and Technicolor. ”
- Owen Edwards- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ”
- Dan Gable- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Once your physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental. ”
- Patti Johnson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Those other gold medals are at home. Plus, I have a gold outfit I want to wear. I didn't bring anything silver or bronze. ”
- Lisa Leslie- Copy
- 2.9K
“ With attractive women juries sometimes have to be restrained from handing them a medal for their crimes. ”
- John McGeorge- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan. ”
- Jaime Pressly- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person. ”
- Gene Vincent- Copy
- 3K
“ Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental. ”
- Patti Johnson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ”
- Grantland Rice- Copy
- 3K
“ Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
- 56
“ If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best. ”
- Jesse Owens- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 753
“ The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. ”
- Jackie Joyner Kersee- Copy
- 1.5K
“ We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one. ”
- Charlotte Bunch- Copy
- 797
“ If you were going to give a medal to the least delightful person on Earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn't give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway. ”
- Lemony Snicket- Copy
- 269
“ This medal is about everyone that's ever contributed, it's about anyone who's ever been in a national team, its about anyone who had ever coached us. This medal is about women's basketball in Australia, it's not just about one team. ”
- Michele Timms- Copy
- 739
“ When I first came here, I thought, wouldn't it be great to get a medal, and I was third last year at Worlds, and it was a huge step up for me, and it was just a huge moment in my life, and, y'know, once I got here, it really didn't matter any more to me… ”
- Sarah Hughes- Copy
- 375
“ I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest. ”
- John F. Kerry- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I did not want to meet my queen in a wheelchair. I was on two canes, and I managed to follow the protocol, two steps back, curtsy, two steps forward, curtsy again. The queen pinned the medal on and was concerned about how I was recovering. It was a wonderful honor I will never forget. ”
- Anna Lee- Copy
- 551
“ The religion of Christ is not aspirin to deaden the pain of living, it is not a discussion group, nor a miraculous medal nor a piety, nor bingo for God. Not anything less than a joyous adventure of being Christ in a world still skeptical of him. ”
- John Monaghan- Copy
- 747
“ In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism…And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract…all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old… ”
- Elzear Blaze- Copy
- 1.6K
“ In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. ”
- Joesph Heller- Copy
- 647
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