I've achieved my dream of getting a Paralympic gold medal and I'm very lucky that I've been to three Games where I've come away with five gold medals.
You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.
Gold slipped from my hand at the Rome Olympics and then from P.T. Usha at the Los Angeles Olympics. But it is my dream to see a boy or girl from India winning gold in the Olympics before my death.
If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.
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.
It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.
The two things that are probably tied for first are winning a championship with the Mavericks and also being able to win a gold medal - two gold medals with Team USA.
I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.
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.
Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
My dream is to get gold medal both in the world championship and the Olympics.
Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.
The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.
You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!
(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)
I swam my brains out.
I want more gold medals. I only got two in Rio so it would be nice to make it four.