It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.

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

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

It's not me standing on the podium with medals. It's me being able to walk out with a smile on my face and truly being happy with myself.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

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.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

"Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medals

I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

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

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat determination and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

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.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I love her attitude but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance I never do.