To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing feeling.
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?'
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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 worked hard to complete my medal collection.
An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.
I wished for just one medal as a junior.
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.
In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
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.
Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
