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World records are there to be broken. I see the ultimate as the Olympic gold medal and I have got th...
JODIE HENRY It's understandable and natural that democracies like India and the US come closer. One can also arg...
DAGENS NYHETER It's understandable and natural that democracies like India and the US come closer. One can also arg...
DAGENS NYHETER In terms of free speech, there are questions which are much more important than this.
DAGENS NYHETER It is a special day for us with our first Olympic gold medal.
FELIX GOTTWALD I'm glad for the guys. It's good for them to win the gold medal. It's good for Swedish hockey, too. ...
DICK TARNSTROM Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
REBECCA LOBO I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal.
KEETH SMART I still have a medal and I am very happy for my bronze and happy for the Swedish nation that I could...
ANJA PAERSON![]()
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an ...
DOROTHY HAMILL I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
PAULA RADCLIFFE![]()
Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic ...
MO FARAH![]()
I think about winning the Olympic gold medal a couple of times every day. Oh, it would be so nice to...
SASHA COHEN If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
YOHAN BLAKE An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I...
PAULA RADCLIFFE I always thought my Olympic bronze medal was the highlight of my career,
IVAN LJUBICIC![]()
An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth ...
CHAD LE CLOS![]()
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medal...
MICHAEL PHELPS![]()
Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.
ASHLEY WAGNER ...is to win the Olympic gold medal this year, that's for sure the biggest one.
HAYLEY WICKENHEISER I think it's important for the U.S. team to break through and achieve an Olympic medal. I feel that ...
TODD LODWICK People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the me...
MIKAELA SHIFFRIN![]()
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic go...
MICHAEL PHELPS![]()
I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.
KATIE TAYLOR I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,
IAN THORPE What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wa...
KURT BROWNING He didn't win the Stanley Cup, but I hope he wins a gold medal in the Olympic Games.
ILYA BRYZGALOV It was never in dispute that I was an Olympic competitor. I just wanted it in the records.
ANNE ABERNATHY Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color on...
GRACIE GOLD![]()
There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.
TYSON FURY Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that...
JIM MCKAY![]()
I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic m...
CLARA HUGHES Winning an Olympic quota place itself was a very hard job. Add to that a gold medal as well.... I me...
GAGAN NARANG I kind of get choked up when I see the kids look at the medals. Maybe that will provide them with a ...
BRIAN ORSER Our medal predictions rested with our beat writers. Best in the World.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what...
CATE CAMPBELL [Breaking his neck] was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been ...
MARK ZUPAN As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic ca...
PETER SNELL I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.
TOM DALEY![]()
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at ...
SAINA NEHWAL Our guys played well. It was a great experience. They have to get wound up to play in the bronze med...
CRAIG MACTAVISH I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll...
JOE FRAZIER An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honour that can be received by an athlete. I would ...
JEFF FENECH The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang...
MARY KOM![]()
I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to wi...
BORIS BECKER Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming...
CHRIS KLEIN Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he...
BRIAN ALEXANDER I've had the honor of competing with Kari since I've been on the World Cup tour. She's a great perso...
JENNIFER HEIL They faced Manitoba, who beat them 3-0, and then went on to win the gold medal.
GREG RAHIER If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a unive...
DANIEL CORMIER We looked at basically the Olympic selection criteria we're dealing with and we had a healthy dis...
BOB HOREN To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a tabl...
MA LONG No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and ...
RYAN LOCHTE We have been so close to beating the Americans in the past two Olympic finals. And this year we want...
JAN STIRLING![]()
Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults i...
VICTORIA PENDLETON When I started windsurfing, it was a hobby, and I enjoyed the lifestyle. Then it became an Olympic d...
BRYONY SHAW![]()
People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olymp...
VICTORIA PENDLETON![]()
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD In Europe, biathlon is the No. 1 televised Olympic sport. The key is getting some TV exposure in the...
BILL LILLY It's going to boil down to who lets him run track. He asked me once if anybody has ever won the Heis...
RON PEARSON![]()
Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yoursel...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite...
DAN O'BRIEN The Public Records Law strongly favors disclosure by creating a presumption that all governmental re...
ALAN COTE![]()
An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since...
HANNAH KEARNEY It hurts me to think that someday I won?t have a medal I deserved, an Olympic run I deserved, or be ...
ALISSA JOHNSON![]()
Not every young person can win an Olympic medal or even make the Olympics teams, but every young per...
HILLARY CLINTON She's pushed the sport so far; it's been amazing to compete with her. This is her third Olympic meda...
JENNIFER HEIL![]()
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it ...
ALLYSON FELIX Doug Larson, the famous runner and 1924 Olympic Gold Medal winner, said it best 'Life expectancy wou...
DAVID MEZZAPELLE I am determined to make sure Team USA returns to the Olympic Games in 2008 in Beijing, China, and is...
BOB WATSON He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and a...
TRACY WILSON It's a dream, it's fantastic. We have had a perfect season with the first place in the European Cham...
CATHRINE LINDAHL I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... bi...
JOHNNY MATHIS It's hard to know what to feel. As a kid you dream about Olympics, Olympics, your whole life. Now th...
JAMIE KORAB Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandf...
GEORGE AKERLOF![]()
When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all ...
MARC MARON It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of a...
ADELINA SOTNIKOVA I respect both Peter and Brock as fighters, but Audley was the gold medal winner in 2000. Quite fran...
DAN GOOSSEN![]()
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crown...
DOMINIQUE MOCEANU![]()
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic ...
SCOTT HAMILTON Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kip...
DAVID RUDISHA I came here kind of with a medal in the back of my mind, which is maybe a little high expectation fo...
ANDY NEWELL Look at all the Olympic athletes that use helmets for their sports.
DR. AMY LUCKEYDOO![]()
For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Eve...
LINDSEY VONN![]()
When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to b...
HANNAH KEARNEY If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has o...
STEVEN E. LANDSBURG![]()
After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it ...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI![]()
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and w...
DAVID RUDISHA This whole medal count is, in my opinion, not really in the spirit of the Olympic Games. It just kin...
KRISTINA GROVES![]()
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S....
MUHAMMAD ALI![]()
Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON![]()
If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of...
MICHAEL PHELPS![]()
Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with...
GEORGE VECSEY Her goal is definitely to be in that championship match and to have the first place medal hanging ar...
DAVE HOHENTHAL![]()
I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the ...
HOPE SOLO![]()
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You ha...
VALENTINO ROSSI
JODIE HENRY It's understandable and natural that democracies like India and the US come closer. One can also arg...
DAGENS NYHETER It's understandable and natural that democracies like India and the US come closer. One can also arg...
DAGENS NYHETER In terms of free speech, there are questions which are much more important than this.
DAGENS NYHETER It is a special day for us with our first Olympic gold medal.
FELIX GOTTWALD I'm glad for the guys. It's good for them to win the gold medal. It's good for Swedish hockey, too. ...
DICK TARNSTROM Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
REBECCA LOBO I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal.
KEETH SMART I still have a medal and I am very happy for my bronze and happy for the Swedish nation that I could...
ANJA PAERSON
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an ... DOROTHY HAMILL I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
PAULA RADCLIFFE
Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic ... MO FARAH
I think about winning the Olympic gold medal a couple of times every day. Oh, it would be so nice to... SASHA COHEN If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
YOHAN BLAKE An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I...
PAULA RADCLIFFE I always thought my Olympic bronze medal was the highlight of my career,
IVAN LJUBICIC
An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth ... CHAD LE CLOS
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medal... MICHAEL PHELPS
Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me. ASHLEY WAGNER ...is to win the Olympic gold medal this year, that's for sure the biggest one.
HAYLEY WICKENHEISER I think it's important for the U.S. team to break through and achieve an Olympic medal. I feel that ...
TODD LODWICK People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the me...
MIKAELA SHIFFRIN
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic go... MICHAEL PHELPS
I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal. KATIE TAYLOR I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,
IAN THORPE What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wa...
KURT BROWNING He didn't win the Stanley Cup, but I hope he wins a gold medal in the Olympic Games.
ILYA BRYZGALOV It was never in dispute that I was an Olympic competitor. I just wanted it in the records.
ANNE ABERNATHY Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color on...
GRACIE GOLD
There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008. TYSON FURY Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that...
JIM MCKAY
I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career. KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic m...
CLARA HUGHES Winning an Olympic quota place itself was a very hard job. Add to that a gold medal as well.... I me...
GAGAN NARANG I kind of get choked up when I see the kids look at the medals. Maybe that will provide them with a ...
BRIAN ORSER Our medal predictions rested with our beat writers. Best in the World.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what...
CATE CAMPBELL [Breaking his neck] was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been ...
MARK ZUPAN As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic ca...
PETER SNELL I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.
TOM DALEY
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at ... SAINA NEHWAL Our guys played well. It was a great experience. They have to get wound up to play in the bronze med...
CRAIG MACTAVISH I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll...
JOE FRAZIER An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honour that can be received by an athlete. I would ...
JEFF FENECH The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang...
MARY KOM
I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to wi... BORIS BECKER Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming...
CHRIS KLEIN Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he...
BRIAN ALEXANDER I've had the honor of competing with Kari since I've been on the World Cup tour. She's a great perso...
JENNIFER HEIL They faced Manitoba, who beat them 3-0, and then went on to win the gold medal.
GREG RAHIER If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a unive...
DANIEL CORMIER We looked at basically the Olympic selection criteria we're dealing with and we had a healthy dis...
BOB HOREN To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a tabl...
MA LONG No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and ...
RYAN LOCHTE We have been so close to beating the Americans in the past two Olympic finals. And this year we want...
JAN STIRLING
Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults i... VICTORIA PENDLETON When I started windsurfing, it was a hobby, and I enjoyed the lifestyle. Then it became an Olympic d...
BRYONY SHAW
People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olymp... VICTORIA PENDLETON
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD In Europe, biathlon is the No. 1 televised Olympic sport. The key is getting some TV exposure in the...
BILL LILLY It's going to boil down to who lets him run track. He asked me once if anybody has ever won the Heis...
RON PEARSON
Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yoursel... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite...
DAN O'BRIEN The Public Records Law strongly favors disclosure by creating a presumption that all governmental re...
ALAN COTE
An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since... HANNAH KEARNEY It hurts me to think that someday I won?t have a medal I deserved, an Olympic run I deserved, or be ...
ALISSA JOHNSON
Not every young person can win an Olympic medal or even make the Olympics teams, but every young per... HILLARY CLINTON She's pushed the sport so far; it's been amazing to compete with her. This is her third Olympic meda...
JENNIFER HEIL
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it ... ALLYSON FELIX Doug Larson, the famous runner and 1924 Olympic Gold Medal winner, said it best 'Life expectancy wou...
DAVID MEZZAPELLE I am determined to make sure Team USA returns to the Olympic Games in 2008 in Beijing, China, and is...
BOB WATSON He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and a...
TRACY WILSON It's a dream, it's fantastic. We have had a perfect season with the first place in the European Cham...
CATHRINE LINDAHL I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... bi...
JOHNNY MATHIS It's hard to know what to feel. As a kid you dream about Olympics, Olympics, your whole life. Now th...
JAMIE KORAB Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandf...
GEORGE AKERLOF
When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all ... MARC MARON It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of a...
ADELINA SOTNIKOVA I respect both Peter and Brock as fighters, but Audley was the gold medal winner in 2000. Quite fran...
DAN GOOSSEN
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crown... DOMINIQUE MOCEANU
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic ... SCOTT HAMILTON Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kip...
DAVID RUDISHA I came here kind of with a medal in the back of my mind, which is maybe a little high expectation fo...
ANDY NEWELL Look at all the Olympic athletes that use helmets for their sports.
DR. AMY LUCKEYDOO
For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Eve... LINDSEY VONN
When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to b... HANNAH KEARNEY If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has o...
STEVEN E. LANDSBURG
After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it ... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and w...
DAVID RUDISHA This whole medal count is, in my opinion, not really in the spirit of the Olympic Games. It just kin...
KRISTINA GROVES
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.... MUHAMMAD ALI
Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move. KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON
If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of... MICHAEL PHELPS
Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with... GEORGE VECSEY Her goal is definitely to be in that championship match and to have the first place medal hanging ar...
DAVE HOHENTHAL
I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the ... HOPE SOLO
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You ha... VALENTINO ROSSI
