#medal

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#expected #going #gold #gold medal #medal

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#break #could #done #get #gold

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#duties #front #his #inverse #line

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#librarians

If I could bronze my love, it’d be worthy of a silver medal.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #love #medal #silver-medal

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

— Mary Lou Retton

#committee #international #medals #never #olympic

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well. ↗

— Inge de Bruijn

#because #bit #countries #different #different countries

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

#believing #campaign #destined #else #feeling

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#champion #deserve #ever #gold #gold medal

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

#although #career #gold #gold medal #great