Top 834 Bronze Medal Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.

I don't want to play football for 15 years and not have one trophy or one medal. Sorry, that's not what I am about. I wouldn't be happy with that.

It's like a dream for me, participating in the Olympics, it's so important for my career and I hope to win the gold medal here.

This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.

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.

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

Everything that I did to win a gold medal, I'm practically transferring it over to mixed martial arts.

It's really cool. I don't know how many people in the world have a silver medal. Maybe a thousand?

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.

I think javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has a good chance of winning a medal at the Paris Olympics.

It is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.

The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.

My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

Having an Olympic medal validates that you can be a successful freeskier... It's like a credential that sticks with you the rest of your life.

I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe.

I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'

After getting a gold medal I could celebrate but also was trying to keep the emotions at bay.

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

We surprised ourselves in '84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn't yet until we won the gold medal.

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don`t give up.

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.

Playing at the Women's World Cup is my long-term goal and, hopefully, I can contribute to winning a medal.

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

Of course, I can't wait until I get the medal and I can walk around the house and say, 'Daddy, I got you.'

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

As soon as we landed in Tokyo, that's when I was like, OK. I really want to bring home a gold medal.'

I certainly wouldn't be a dental hygienist - they should get the Medal of Honor just to look at people's gums.

Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.

Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

I like a kind of dark, bronze-y brown smoky eye with maybe some mascara, some contouring and stuff, but I don't like wearing black or pinks. I like it more tonal.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

Our big hope is to get to the Olympics and win the first beach volleyball gold medal - if we can make it.

A medal in Tokyo Olympics is my target, it's the ultimate for an athlete. I am still young and my best is yet to come.

It is a great feeling that I am the first Indian to win a gold medal in track event in world juniors.

...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

I'm really happy that I've got the Champions League medal around my neck and the trophy sat by my side.

After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.

It has always been a dream to win either the Olympic gold medal or the World Cup.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

Sri Chinmoy brings Heaven to me. He inspires everyone to be happy. He deserves the biggest gold medal.

The pressure is high because of course... everyone's expecting me to win the gold medal in Tokyo.

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.