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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
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
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
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else. -- Rebecca Lobo
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' -- Michael Phelps
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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 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
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here. -- Muhammad Ali
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
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

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