Quotes on Olympic Medals

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

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

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.

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.

To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

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

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

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.

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.