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I don't know anybody that is like super close friends but also competing for the same medal. That would be kinda odd.
I don't care anything about being a Medal of Honor recipient, but if I can use that to help veterans get jobs, I will.
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.
Life has changed after Rio. Winning a silver medal was a huge moment for me. It has come with a lot of responsibilities.
There was a time in my life I wanted that Olympic medal, and all I did was train, train, train and work harder than ever.
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 is effectively a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved, and the chance to win an Olympic medal would be amazing.
When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.
It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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.
In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.
I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a leg that I built.
I'd promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her, and in my mind I was thinking, 'I can't let her down.'
People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the medal unless someone asks about it.
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.
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
I won a silver medal. But really, I ended up running the fastest race of my life to become part of something that transcended the Games.
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
We came from a poor, poor family and for them to see me winning a trophy in front of 90,000 people and getting a medal would be something.
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.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
I have a world championship medal from 2014, but I can't find it. So I'm missing one. I think it's at my sister's house. I have to find it.
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.
Having an Olympic medal validates that you can be a successful freeskier... It's like a credential that sticks with you the rest of your life.
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.
The SheBelieves was my big moment, my big breakthrough. We had to get on that platform, hold that trophy, and have that medal around our necks.
'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.
I don't want to play football for 15 years and not have one trophy or one medal. Sorry, that's not what I am about. I wouldn't be happy with that.
I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.
I've seen the success of Mary Kom at the Olympics... We stayed in the same flat. If she can win a medal after being the mother of two, why can't I?
I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the 'Medal of Honors' and 'Call of Duties.'
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.
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.
I've dominated past competitions, but I've sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I'm fully focused on doing my best.
I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
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.