I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.
For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.
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.
My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'
I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
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.
I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.
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.
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.
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.