Medal Quotes

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

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.

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

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

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

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

I just go where I'm sent and I do what I'm told. I listen to the highest voices within me. I don't feel the least bit courageous. I don't feel like I deserve any medals. I don't feel that I'm any more special than anybody else who's out there.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

I have two hands. I can hold two medals.