Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot. – Gabby Douglas
The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold. – Carly Patterson
Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor. – Fabrizio Moreira
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it. – Diane Paulus
When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, and he adorned our Wheaties boxes. We all wanted to be Bruce Jenner. – Nicholas Kristof
The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening. – Campbell Newman
Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels. – Charles Perrault
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country. – Fidel Castro
Creation’s gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality. – Mary Manin Morrissey
Everyone is getting prepared for this, to win the gold medal. I am among them: I want to win the medal. – Genzebe Dibaba
I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010. – Mo Farah
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It’s a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. – Gary Gygax
I’ve always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you’ll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It’s a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer. – Nelson DeMille
I wouldn’t say that there’s ever been an Olympic champion that didn’t deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. – Dorothy Hamill
I went into boxing, and I’m bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible. – Nicola Adams
I think that’s something to look forward to: The new Gracie Gold at the Olympics. In 2014, you’ll see a lot of the warm Gracie, and not just the athletic Gracie. – Gracie Gold
I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, ‘What do you think you’re going to do in the Olympics?’ and I said, ‘I’m hoping I’m going to win a medal, and, if possible, it’s going to be a gold one.’ – Nadia Comaneci
They don’t give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. – Michael Johnson
Nobody at CNBC owns gold. Nobody at Bloomberg owns gold. Gold is being constantly talked down by the media, and Fed officials, and economists, who also don’t own any gold. They’re all stocked up in equities. – Marc Faber
A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he’d unified those companies and was ready for expansion – a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery. – Peter Diamandis
Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They’re basically saying you’re a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side. – Mike Schmidt
Where I’m from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of ‘cashed-up Bogans,’ you know, people with no class but a lot of money. – Margot Robbie
I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn’t know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before. – Nadia Comaneci
I think DVD has been a real gold mine for a lot of reasons. You were selling a packaged good in a big mass market, so you could make it huge. You were selling or renting a thing that people didn’t consume. You go to Blockbuster, rent five movies, and only watch two. That’s a good business to be in. – Michael Lynton
I like a lot of metal music. So that’s really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah. – Jada Pinkett Smith
A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident. – Patrick Rothfuss
