Top 166 Podium Quotes & Sayings

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

At the end of the day, standing on the Olympic podium on the top is what we're all really searching for here.

Any race, I'm always going for the top step on the podium.

There was that feeling of standing on the podium and listening to someone else's national anthem that really sucked.

I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

I'm 34, and I'll be the oldest sprinter ever on a podium. I'm just happy to be here.

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.

Every Olympics, we always end up having someone on the podium that we had no idea, or we didn't expect them to be.

I’m already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.

After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!

Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

I am pretty pleased. I will be on the Olympic podium, so you can't be more happy.

Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium.

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

There's no better place to be on the podium than here at Monza.

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

Anytime you’re on the podium, it’s good.

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

I hope the feeling of standing up on the podium winning gold will never get old.

Every single race that I get on the podium in biathlon, I'm shocked.

Figure skating is such an individual sport, but to have a teammate on the podium with you is unbelievable.

Its always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

I thought, I can't wait to get on the podium squad. I was in my hotel and they were in the Premier Inn living the high life!

When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.

Finishing on the podium in my first year, I never expected that. It just fell into place.

It's always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.

I know my name is thrown out there and I could care less about it. It is something that comes with the sport when you are on top of the podium.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position you can find ways to make your car very wide!

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.

I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.

My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind a podium in the front of a room. That journey, from behind that bar to behind this podium, goes to the essence of the American miracle - that we're exceptional not because we have more rich people here. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here.

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

The whole podium time was like it was in slow motion. I was watching the flag go up realizing I'm part of one of the greatest countries on earth.

I want to be the guy that's taking names, on the podium, and winning events.

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

I don't think I need to stand on a podium and say what kind of performance I've given in 'Yatra' or any other film.

Every team should have the chance to go on the podium, that would make it interesting. I believe that.

For me, personally, getting a podium is not as important as feeling super comfortable on my skiing.

A World Cup is always special because it is the highest podium on which you can show your abilities as an individual player or coach, and as a team.

In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

When you're so close to winning and you have to stand on the podium and listen to someone else's anthem, it leaves just a little bit of that bittersweet feeling.