A Quote by Eric Heiden

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them? — © Eric Heiden
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.
I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.
I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.
My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.
I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after me.
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
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.
The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.
Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.
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.
I want to be in Tokyo. I want to defend my titles and I want to change these medals into gold medals.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
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 gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!
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