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I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.


Debi Thomas

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MIKAELA SHIFFRIN I felt I would have the bronze medal. I felt the Korean team did something.
WANG MENG The medal is the icing on the cake. The real medal is becoming a Canadian citizen, getting the oppor...
LASCELLES BROWN I always thought my Olympic bronze medal was the highlight of my career,
IVAN LJUBICIC It's great to win a bronze medal, but I just want to focus on the next races coming up.
CINDY KLASSEN I saw him step up to the outside. I just locked it in and started driving. Coming into the state tou...
KYLE DOHERTY I expected a bronze medal, maybe. When I saw I was second I was very surprised, very happy.
MARLIES SCHILD It's very nice to have two silver medals. Yesterday morning after breakfast I had to return my bronz...
MARTINA GLAGOW My start let me down but I can't complain, it's a medal.
MARC BURNS Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
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BILL FAUVER After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it ...
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KRISSY WENDELL I think I brought it on myself. I guaranteed a gold medal (before the Olympics). I'm not doing that ...
CARMELO ANTHONY If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.
LOUIS C. K. It was nice to see our school up on the medal stand getting a medal this time and to get top 10 in t...
JOE RINALDO I still have a medal and I am very happy for my bronze and happy for the Swedish nation that I could...
ANJA PAERSON I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me.
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SCOTT HAMILTON Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important...
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE With all the team problems we had the bronze medal for the women was a superb consolation.
MIKE DOWN I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but...
PATRICK CHAN The 500 meters is my weakest event. To have the bronze medal brings me joy.
AHN SOO The 500 meters is my weakest event. To have the bronze medal brings me joy.
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CAITLYN JENNER I was not very happy after the disaster that happened to Olga. The bronze medal that was shifted to ...
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JEFF FENECH It's tough to say we had a 100 percent chance (at a medal), but with countries moving in and out of ...
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DAN O'BRIEN When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you ...
CHARLIE WHITE It's stacked. In the 500, I felt if I skated well, I might win a medal without being unbelievably aw...
CASEY FITZRANDOLPH I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.
KATIE TAYLOR Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans ...
GAIL DEVERS I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and f...
BONNIE BLAIR The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.
BOB KERREY No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what...
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ABBY WAMBACH I saw after six laps I was seventh. At this time nobody would have thought I could get the bronze me...
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BART SCHOUTEN It was good for me to get that goal and get some confidence. I can carry that confidence into the go...
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ALEX MORGAN You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
BILL PARCELLS I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.
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KYLE NISSEN My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but &...
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MA LONG I'm pretty annoyed about it. I've got to try to take a positive out of this week ... I took a silver...
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JODIE HENRY I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an ...
DOROTHY HAMILL I simply am the lucky man who got this gold medal here.
ARMIN ZOEGGELER I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold meda...
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HILLARY CLINTON My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold med...
BETTY CUTHBERT It seems that a medal for me is almost out of reach. I wasn't able to get the points I needed.
AIKO UEMURA I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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ASHTON EATON I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare fe...
VIJENDER SINGH Everyone is getting prepared for this, to win the gold medal. I am among them: I want to win the med...
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AARON ALLSTON I came here to win a medal.
DOMINIQUE MALTAIS Our pursuit team is very strong, and can win a medal. I want to be part of that.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON