For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
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.
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
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.
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.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
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