Gold Medals Quotes:

In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

- Wayne Gretzky

source: Source: www.hockeycanada.ca

topic: Gold, Medal, Gold Medals

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

- Dan Gable

topic: Sports, Determination, Athlete, Great Sports, Inspirational Runner

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

- Shaun White

topic: Sports, World, Olympics, Olympic Games, Olympic Medals

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

- Sugar Ray Robinson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Attitude

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Inspirational Diversity, African American History

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

- Jesse Owens

source: Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

topic: Running, Athlete, Long, Olympic Games, Olympic Medals

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

- Serena Williams

topic: Positive, Believe, Doe, Inspirational Attitude, Just Believe In Yourself

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

- Michael Phelps

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Olympic Games, Inspiring Athlete

Never put an age limit on your dreams

- Dara Torres

source: "Dara Torres: Don’t put an age limit on your dreams" by Giovanni Castelli, optometrytimes.modernmedicine.com. June 22, 2017.

topic: Dream, Athlete, Age, Inspirational Athlete, Olympic Games

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Faith, Strong, Kings, Inspiring Movie, Travel Light

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

- Wilma Rudolph

source: "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Influence And Power, Inspirational Athlete

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer, Inspirational Soccer, Olympic Games

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

- Mary Lou Retton

topic: Motivational, Graduation, Peace, Inspiring Athlete, Life And Passion

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.

- Mitch Gaylord

topic: Memories, Team, Honor, Olympic Games, Olympic Medals

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

topic: Motivational, Athlete, Men, Olympic Medals, Gold Medals

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

- Carl Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Winning, Way, Inspirational Athlete, Sports Training

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

- Jesse Owens

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Sports, Track, Olympic Games, Olympic Medals

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

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

topic: Motivational, God, Wisdom, Diploma, Gold Medals

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

- Andre Agassi

topic: Hard Work, Tennis, Substitutes, Sweating, Training Hard

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

- Nadia Comaneci

source: Nadia Comaneci (2009). “Letters to a Young Gymnast”, p.50, Basic Books

topic: Motivational, Running, Athlete, Olympic Medals, Facing Challenges

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

- Peggy Fleming

topic: Leadership, Sports, Love You, Olympic Games, Olympic Medals

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

- Democritus

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy, Money And Happiness, Brighten Your Day

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

- Sebastian Coe

source: Sebastian Coe, Nicholas Mason (1988). “The Olympians: A Quest for Gold: Triumphs, Heroes & Legends”

topic: Believe, Long, Feelings, Olympic Games, Olympic Medals

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

- Florence Griffith Joyner

topic: Athlete, Listening, Tell Me I Can T, Olympic Medals, Olympics Games

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Dream, Men, Gold, Man Of My Dreams, Pitiful

Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals.

- Kieren Perkins

topic: Sports, Dream, Determination, Olympic Medals, Motivational Swimming

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

- Pierre de Coubertin

topic: Fighting, Winning, Aquariums, Olympic Games, Olympic Medals

If you think you can - you can!

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Failure, Good Luck, Thinking, Inspirational Goal, Great Positive Attitude

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

- Shaun White

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.

topic: Gold, Firsts, Medal, Gold Medals

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

topic: Success, Sports, Accomplishment, Olympic Medals, Gold Medals

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

- Mark Spitz

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Failing, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Athlete

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

topic: Running, Courage, Famous Inspirational, Fear None, Courage To Change

I am completely honest and truthful when I say I don’t want a gold for myself. I want a gold for the team. You go up there and do it as a collective group and it’s so much more satisfying, I mean you look around and you see the faces and just wow, this was a team effort and we did this together. It’s incredible and that’s my dream. I wanna win a gold medal and see the flag go up, hear the national anthem and just know that I did it with my brothers standing next to me.

- Jonathan Horton

topic: Dream, Brother, Team, Gold Medals, National Anthem

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.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

topic: Sports, Winning, Careers, Gold Medals, Great Accomplishment

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

- Jeff Fenech

topic: Athlete, Achievement, Honor, Olympic Games, Greatest Achievement

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

- Jesse Owens

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Friendship, Basketball, Real, Real Gold, Gold Dust

When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.

- Jack Canfield

topic: Winning, Atlanta, Hands, Written Goals, Gold Medals

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

- David Rudisha

topic: Winning, Careers, Missing, Special Events, World Champions

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

- Dorothy Hamill

source: "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

topic: Winning, Thinking, Gold, Gold Medals

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

- Peter Snell

topic: Teenager, Winning, Careers, Gold Medals

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

- Jesse Owens

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hockey, Winning, Advice, Olympic Medals, Olympics Games

When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.

- Linford Christie

topic: Sports, Real, Athlete, Gold Medals

I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train with his body. He trains with his mind.

- Hicham El Guerrouj

topic: Crazy, Athlete, Self Confidence, Lack Of Self Confidence, Crazy Person

It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.

- Michaela Dorfmeister

topic: Dream, Home, Two, Gold Medals

The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Jobs, Team, Guy, Gold Medals, Accolades

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

- Marat Safin

topic: Winning, Goal, Tennis, Gold Medals

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

- Ekaterina Gordeeva

topic: Gold, Unions, Firsts, Gold Medals

Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Girl, Country, Silly, Calculating, Otherness