Medal Count Quotes

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.

My focus will always be my athletic career and winning more medals for the country.

I now have Youth Olympic, Olympic and European Games titles, which is a dream. I didn't fight that well and just scraped through a lot of the fights, but winning is a relief, and it's more points towards the Rio Olympics, which takes a bit of pressure off me.

I love what I do. I want to continue winning medals.

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.

I saw U.A.E. play at the London Olympics for the first time and I was really impressed with how they played against the likes of Great Britain and Uruguay.

It is just nice to be able to tick off all of the events I've won and hopefully one day be able to complete them all.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.

It would be pretty special if I could win two Olympic gold medals, one at the Summer Games and one from the Winters, so I'm going to give it a real go.

I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment.

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

The dynamic has really changed in the U.S. Americans believe they can be competitive, that they can win medals.

Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

Team U.S.A. is awesome.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.