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You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist! -- Kurt Angle
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. -- Dorothy Hamill
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. -- Kurt Angle
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. -- Oksana Baiul
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. -- Jim McKay
The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background. -- George Foreman
Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game. -- John Eliot
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors. -- Nastia Liukin
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' -- Michael Phelps
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Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken. -- Misty May-Treanor
I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games. -- Donovan Bailey
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever. -- Wilma Rudolph
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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. -- Peter Snell
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. -- Joe Frazier
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. -- Michael Phelps
No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time. -- Ryan Lochte
The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career. -- David Rudisha
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. -- Greg LeMond
Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal. -- Sebastian Coe
I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued. -- Charles Krauthammer
I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals. -- Diana Lopez
Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months. -- Don Yaeger
Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai. -- David Rudisha
During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold. -- Jahangir Khan
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world. -- David Rudisha
Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk. -- Holly Madison
For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off. -- Lindsey Vonn
The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It's actually even more difficult. You're not taken very seriously, and you're looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight from Olympics into acting. -- Kurt Angle
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else. -- Rebecca Lobo
You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. -- Seth Godin
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. -- Fidel Castro
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. -- Scott Hamilton
To win Olympic gold it takes a lot of HARDWORK, a lot of PASSION, a lot of SACRIFICES. -- Gabby Douglas
No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs. -- Miranda Hart
To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one. -- Adelina Sotnikova
Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal. -- Patrick Ewing
Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year. -- Tom Daley
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here. -- Muhammad Ali
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. -- Marian Dragulescu
Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken, -- Misty May-Treanor
During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly. -- Daley Thompson
An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics. -- Jeff Fenech
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. -- Chris Klein
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal. -- Hugh Laurie
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The favorite to win the Olympic gold medal in archery is a legally blind athlete from South Korea, mainly because everyone else is too scared to compete next to him. -- Jimmy Fallon
When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy. -- Dominique Moceanu
I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time. -- Luke Donald
An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was. -- Hannah Kearney
Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there. -- Ivan Lendl
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence. -- Scott Hamilton

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