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In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!
The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn't necessarily mean you've achieved anything, you've got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do.
COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
The working mothers of America deserve medals.
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What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?
It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.
The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
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Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.
If I could bronze my love, it'd be worthy of a silver medal.
Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.
One honor won is a surety for more.
Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.
Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate.
You may have a silver medal, but I was the top scorer on my second grade team.
Awards are good but rewards are better.
London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.
I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'
Scars are the awards of success, not the medals.
I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.
It's always good to get a wake-up call and a reminder that you can't just go there and collect medals.
To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.
I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.
I'm a bad son of a bitch, I'm a hard son of a bitch, I deserve a frigging medal.
I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.
He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.
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.
It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.
I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.
We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities.
In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.
Being in war itself is a gallant, awards are mere decorations.
We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.
It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is probably what has kept me going. I had none of the self-doubts which have bothered me in the past. I was totally positive.
This is what happens when they give you medals for breaking the rules: you forget the rules apply to you.
Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our debt.
More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.
A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.
Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.
If you're not enough before the gold medal, you won't be enough with it.
When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.
Don't confuse honours with achievement.
It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.
One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.
People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster!
But hey, if they want to give me a medal for being me, that's okay. I'll take it.
A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to.
Try to get all your posthumous medals in advance.
I have a lot of awards in my house that I have absolutely no idea what they are for.
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
You never win the silver, you only lose the gold
Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.
Individual honors come with team success.
Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.
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Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one.
Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment
You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
As badly as I want a medal, I know there is a lot of luck involved in that. I want to put myself in position to be in the top three, give it my all and hope luck comes my way.
There is the potential for dreams to come true, for records to be broken, and medals to be won, and at this time everyone believes that they individually have the potential to make their dream a reality.
Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
Gender is a race in which some of the runners compete only for the bronze medal.
Quantity brings recognition and accolades
Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around.
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I have two hands. I can hold two medals.
Darwin Award. That's not a real award, it's a joke. They give them to people who die doing something so stupid that it counts as a service to humanity.
I can't even begin to explain how important it is to all the people who have been involved in our program, and built it to where it is today. I can't believe we won. I can't believe we have the gold medal.
To win Olympic gold it takes a lot of HARDWORK, a lot of PASSION, a lot of SACRIFICES.
Honor is the trophy for your good deeds.
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.
The real rewards you can't put on a shelf.
It's incredible, they're [the medals] beautiful and as soon as they put them around your neck, it's pretty amazing. Shannon played outstandingly well. She was so calm, composed and she was just moving so well.
I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
Those who mourned needed to find meaning in their loss. When the British struck their Victory Medal for issue to all those who had served, they provided one answer: 'For Civilisation', it said.
I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.
Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.
Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world