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After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.
Everyone is getting prepared for this, to win the gold medal. I am among them: I want to win the medal.
My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.
And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.
This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.
It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very satisfied.
Winning the 2012 bronze medal was magnificent, but I would love to win a gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.
To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.
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.
It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
It's like a dream for me, participating in the Olympics, it's so important for my career and I hope to win the gold medal here.
I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not gonna be that way.
When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
The World University Games Gold medal was a great confidence booster for me. It highlighted my talents, my performance and dedication.
I always come into these competitions hoping to come away with a gold medal. I won't relax until I have the gold medal around my neck.
The Olympics in '92, I didn't contribute that much. I had more to do with winning the National Championships than I did the gold medal.
Playing in the Copa America would be an important thing for me, just like the Olympics, because Brazil has never won the gold medal there.
I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.
If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.
It means a lot to be an Olympian. I'm obviously so grateful and feel so lucky I was able to achieve my dream of winning an Olympic gold medal.
I've won a world championship, I know how that feels. I don't know how it feels to win a gold medal. I want to feel that; I want to know that.
'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended.
At just 16 years old, I was told that my back would never be the same again. My well-being had been neglected for the opportunity to win a gold medal.
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.
Muhammad Ali meant everything to me. He inspired me to box after watching re-runs of him winning a gold medal in the Olympics and being a world champion.
Of course I want to bring home a gold medal, and that's what I'm planning on doing. For me, that's not pressure. It's a chance to show the world who I am.
I had a lot of wonderful accomplishments in the game of basketball. Of course, to win a gold medal for your country - it doesn't get any better than that.
That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get the gold medal. And I'm able to put my energy toward that.
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.
It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.
I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.
I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for my country - and getting there was my gold medal.
Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.
The two things that are probably tied for first are winning a championship with the Mavericks and also being able to win a gold medal - two gold medals with Team USA.
If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.
Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.