Gold Medalist Quotes

The only thing that me and Muhammad Ali have in common is that we are both Olympic gold medalists and both very outspoken.

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

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Honestly, I would love to fight Henry Cejudo. You've got that gold medalist in the Olympics, I would love to test myself against that.

To be with the other two-time gold medalists is great, but it's great to just be a decathlete.

I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that's enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.

All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.

An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

I'm living a dream. I hope in 10 years people will know me as a gold medalist.

I'm not the kind to go out and tell people 'Oh yeah I'm a gold medalist.'

It is a great feeling that I am the first Indian to win a gold medal in track event in world juniors.

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.

To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.

I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.

I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist!

In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

They usually say that after the Olympic Games, somebody's life changes forever, and a lot of times, it's the gold medalist. But I have a feeling that my life has changed forever.