Medals Quotes

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable

Made, Gold, Guts

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

God, Scars, Degrees

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
Lauren Hutton

Life, Through, Able

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen

Children, Made, Show

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Jesse Owens

Yourself, Within, Inside

I don't know where my medals are.
Eric Cantona

2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.
David Cameron

Forget, Country, Made

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.
Michael Phelps

Mind, Heart, Decision

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
Paul Gascoigne

Time, Great, Two

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.
Shawn Johnson

Sad, Winning, Games

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
Wilma Rudolph

Feeling, Away, Three

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
Carl Lewis

Different, Few, Four

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
Bill Parcells

Trying, Results, Medal

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
Mary Lou Retton

Love, Attitude, Her

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

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
Bode Miller

Same, Three, Won

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
Mary Lou Retton

Success, Won, Financial

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

Win, Won, Olympic

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
Esther Williams

Sports, Big, Three

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
Jamie Redknapp

Start, Personal, Point

I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
Olga Korbut

Love, Fight, Public

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
Olga Korbut

Heart, Important, Win

Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.
Sheryl Swoopes

Gay, Nothing, Person

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
Phyllis Schlafly

Women, Female, Demand

It was never about winning medals or being famous.
Nancy Kerrigan

Famous, Winning

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.
Diana Lopez

Nice, True, Winning

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Dan O'Brien

Time, Men, Realize

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

Policy, Committee, Olympic

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Mary Lou Retton

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.
John Krasinski

Amazing, Meant, Trophies

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