Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.
The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.
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.
I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
He is a very complete, spectacular footballer. He always fights for the ball and tries to lose his marker to help his team-mates - either to defend or to have a shot on goal. For any football player in the Premiership, Scholes is a player you want to emulate. I would happily end my career with the medals that Scholes has. I am young and I hope that I will be able to surpass him - but it is not going to be easy.
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.
Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. It's that interest and exploration that make running fun for me. It's easy to become outcome-focused; for me the unfoldment of self is what is meaningful in running and outlasts any medals.
Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!
Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.
Hey Mark Henry, where are your gold medals? We all know that if Mark Henry won a gold medal he'd just take it and have it bronzed.
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket. '
Sometimes I feel envious when my friends go to parties and I have to go to bed. But my friends always tell me that the parties really aren't that much fun anyway. Whatever I've missed, I've made up for. Most kids don't get to go to the Olympics and win three gold medals. It's definitely been worth it and I wouldn't do it if I didn't want to.
I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.
