Silver Medal Quotes

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

Life has changed after Rio. Winning a silver medal was a huge moment for me. It has come with a lot of responsibilities.

I didn't think I would have an Olympic medal at 21, but I knew I would give my best and play my game. I just viewed it as my first Olympics and that I would take it one match at a time, but to bring a silver home made me very, very happy.

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever.

But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.

When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that's where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

I'm glad to be partnered with Orgullosa because I feel that now that I'm able to win a gold medal at the Olympics, win a silver medal, I feel little girls will be able to look up to me, and Hispanics will kind of rise a little more.

The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to strive for. I love my silver medal, because it stands for all my dreams and all I'm still capable of fulfilling

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

It has been said that sharing my silver medal with that incident on the victory dais detracted from my performance. On the contrary. I have to confess, I was rather proud to be part of it.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.

It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.