The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Charles Edward Montague
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I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.
Gene Vincent
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
Nadia Comaneci
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For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Mary Lou Retton
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Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.
Mo Farah
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In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
Wilma Rudolph
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Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
Kim Yuna
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You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
Bill Parcells
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Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.
Heinrich Boll
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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