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They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]
What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.
The Olympics is still my greatest achievement... I have many belts, but there is only one Olympic gold.
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.
Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.
My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.
God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
I have got gold secure all the time so income tax people will not be able to take the gold from my neck!
Swinging a gold club is sort of a throwing action, and even as a kid, I could throw things far and fast.
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.
To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.
It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.
Pomellato Jewellery makes such timeless pieces. I have a chunky gold bracelet that goes with everything.
I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.
I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.
Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold.
It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.
Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
I love to mix colors. For me, I don't have a rule, like "you can't wear silver and gold." You can mix it.
We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.
slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.
When you win an Olympic gold, it is such a powerful feeling that stays with you for the rest of your life.
Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.
October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.
I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.
I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
I really want to win a medal and would want to win gold. It's my fire and fuel, life and dream, everything.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.