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.
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
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.
You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.
I want to play for my country and win a gold medal.
My one and only focus at the Olympic Games is to win a gold medal.
A lot of guys get out of wrestling immediately after winning a gold medal. Every time another Olympics comes around, it's always a bunch of fresh faces. For me, to win an Olympic gold and have a chance to win another would be huge for our sport.
I take a lot of pride in my first '92 gold medal.
I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.
My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.
It would be meaningful if I can get a gold medal in my parents' country.
I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very satisfied.
The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.
I am the gold standard for liberal bile!
A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
What I didn't tell her was that I distinctly remember walking out of my junior year English class reading, 'Amandla Stenberg comes out as queer.' She unknowingly set a precedent in my life, a gold standard of how to be proud and exist in the intersectionality of multiple identities that were one thought of as being conflicting.
I think justice Scalia is really the gold standard of what a justice should be. Somebody, regardless of how he feels on an issue, is going to look at the text of the Constitution, look at the text of the law, and make his judgment.
I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
