The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.
To be one of the first British females to get three gold medals, to join Laura Trott in doing that, is a huge privilege.
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.
Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
I feel, at the national level, shooters should get monetary rewards also, along with medals and a handshake.
Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
Something that I saw in Sochi that I didn't get the opportunity to have in Vancouver was the team holding hands with arms in the air and medals around their neck.
We have won laurels for the country in wrestling but still, in spite of winning medals, not many people recognised us.
Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.
