#medal

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.' ↗

— Ryan Hall

#am #beijing #biggest #biggest thing #how

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them? ↗

— Eric Heiden

#gold medals #heck #medals #them #you

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#american #away #being #best #body

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#first #i #medal #nine #old

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

#gold medals #heart #helps #important #me

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

#fight #i #i am #interested #love

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 #experiences #feel #had #i

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race. ↗

— Marianne Vos

#gold #gold medals #medals #objective #olympics

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

— Esther Williams

#i #medals #never #olympic #win

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell. I think it's the smell that makes so many folks fall asleep in the library. You'll see someone turn a page and you can imagine a puff of page powder coming up real slow and easy until it starts piling on a person's eyelashes, weighing their eyes down so much they stay down a little longer after each blink and finally making them so heavy that they just don't come back up at all. Then their mouths open and their heads start bouncing up and down like they're bobbing in a big tub of of water for apples and before you know it... they're out cold and their face thunks smack-dab on the book. That's the part that makes librarians the maddest. They get real upset if folks start drooling in the books ↗

— Christopher Paul Curtis

#falling-asleep #librarian #library #newberry #newberry-medal-winner