Karl Marlantes

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

American Author

Nadia Comaneci

I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.

Romanian Athlete

Olga Korbut

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

Russian Athlete

Geeta Phogat

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.

American Wrestler

Justin Gatlin

There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to one person, the champion.

American Athlete

Nikola Jokic

It's really cool. I don't know how many people in the world have a silver medal. Maybe a thousand?

Serbian Athlete

Esther Williams

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

American Actress

Phil Neville

Rankings aren't that important to me. I want a winners' medal.

English Athlete

Denise Lewis

Winning that gold medal in Sydney really did change my life.

British Athlete

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Getting three gold medals is something I'll really cherish.

Jamaican Athlete

The 'medal' refers to a tangible object often worn on the chest.

Physical Object

'Medal' symbolizes achievement in competitive fields, like sports or academics.

Symbol of Success

Though often gold, silver, or bronze, a 'medal' can be made of any material.

Material Not Specified

To 'medal' means to achieve top rankings, typically in sports events.

Sporting Success

You can 'medal' by coming in second or third, not just by winning.

Not Just First

Use 'medal' when someone attains a medal in a competitive context.

Action in Competitions

 and we need to do something about it. But I feel pretty optimistic that we can do this. So I'm here today as a character witness for plants. And I want to tell you that plants are going to do it for us, all we have to do is give them a little help, and they will go and get a gold medal for humanity. Thank you very much.

How supercharged plants...

 where do people like that come from? What is that? That is some deep, deep emotion, when you would want to do that. There's a love there, and I wanted to know why is it that I don't have people that I work with like that? You know, in the military, they give medals to people who are willing to sacrifice themselves

Why good leaders make...

 Olympic gold medalist, head of state. Ems look on humans perhaps with nostalgia and gratitude, but not so much respect, which is, if you think about it, how you think about your ancestors. We know many things about how humans differ in terms of productivity. We can just use those to predict features of ems --

What would happen if we...

 said I'm going to tell you something young man he said people look at me they think I'm some old man sitting in a wheelchair covered with cuts and bruises and scars but I want to tell you something he said these aren't my cuts these aren't my bruises these aren't my scars he said these are my medals of Honor

The urgent need for...

 to build their hospitals and schools. It's also very difficult to confront a general with medals on his chest. It's very difficult for a politician, because you're afraid that many lives have been lost in vain. You feel deep, deep guilt. You exaggerate your fears,

Rory Stewart: Time to...

 People narrow the world and function in discrete groups without empathy for one another. But properly understood and wisely practiced, identity politics should expand our idea of what it is to be human. Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal,

How the worst moments in...

 princess is really cool but who kind of waits around through most of the movie so that she can award the hero with a medal and a wink to thank him for saving the universe which he does by the magic that he was born with compared this to

How movies teach manhood...

 through the nature of the sport itself like you have to be disciplined and so I think that that definitely makes climbing an essential pieces life that's so much bigger than the competition or a podium or a medal there's always been

This Rock Climbing Kid...

 We're a miserably violent species. But there's a complication, which is we don't hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it's the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it.

The biology of our best...

 However, what matters most, more than training or luck, is the heart. Only a fearless and determined heart will get the gold medal. It is all about passion. The streets of Turin were covered with red posters