Quotes on Medals

Everybody kept saying I wasn't going to get any fights. And they wouldn't put me on TV and they don't respect women's boxing. But I also turned professional with two Olympic gold medals and that's something that no other American boxer has ever done. With that, I've been getting a lot of respect.

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.

In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.

I could take away all the gold medals and everything, that was the biggest thing that sport has given me. Belonging into a community, but also being proud of who I was.

If I go into years only thinking about medals I'm missing the whole meaning of what I've always been trying to do, which is trying to push myself and push the barriers of what is possible.

Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.