Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.
Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.
Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.