Top 345 Medals Quotes & Sayings

I want these medals to be for everyone, not just myself.

And I know what confidence medals can bring.

I want to be in Tokyo. I want to defend my titles and I want to change these medals into gold medals.

Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.

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!

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.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

A few years after I finished skating, someone asked where my medals were. I'm like, 'In a suitcase somewhere.' Now they're nicely displayed in an ice rink, but medals don't really mean that much. It's the experience, the story of the skating, the love.

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

A player wants to be remembered for what he has won, for the medals, for what he has given his club.

You have to be pretty fortunate to do multiple games and have a shot at medals.

Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

Our under-19s, under-20s, under-17s teams are all getting into Euro finals, World Cup finals, winning bronze medals. We're winning bronze medals; it's about that final step now. We've got to punish teams. In every game - youth games, senior games - just to push the game further.

I don't need a pool room with medals and everything hanging up.

I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

I've been lucky: I've won a lot of medals, but I'd still like to win more.

But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

My focus will always be my athletic career and winning more medals for the country.

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

I love what I do. I want to continue winning medals.

I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after me.

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

I want to jump far all the time and go out there and win medals.

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

I want to win medals for myself.

In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.

The working mothers of America deserve medals.

Medals are decided on the day, not before that.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

The goal is not to count medals, it's just racing the best I can.

What drives me is winning medals and going out there and enjoying it.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

The dynamic has really changed in the U.S. Americans believe they can be competitive, that they can win medals.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

We have a very good history in hockey and when I look back into my own career, I know I do have a lot of FIH medals, I have medals almost in every tournament but not one in World Cup or Olympics.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

I'm a guy who wins medals rather than runs fast times, so for me, what keeps me going is winning medals for my country and making my nation proud.

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

Getting three gold medals is something I'll really cherish.

I don't come to meets to count medals. It's not what I do. It's just really for me.

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out.

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

I know I'm enough with or without the gold medals. I just love to swim.

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

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'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

I don't know where my medals are.

Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war