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Definition of Medal

Medal

A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.

To honor or reward with a medal.

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Medal Quotations

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
Michael Phelps

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
Frank Shorter

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.
Mary Lou Retton

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
Dorothy Hamill

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
Dan O'Brien

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
Mark Spitz

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
Scott Hamilton

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
Angela Ruggiero

I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.
Alexis Arguello

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
Scott Hamilton

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
Zebulon Pike

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
Aaron Neville

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
Nancy Kerrigan

Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
Jim McKay

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
Olga Korbut

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.
George Woodcock

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.
Shawn Johnson

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
Max Schmeling

I showed everyone the medal and they said, 'Ooh, I can't believe how heavy it is,' Sometimes they were more interested in the medal than in me. I was like, 'Hey, what about me?'
Sarah Hughes

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
Robbie Coltraine

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.
Inge de Bruijn

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.
Rio Ferdinand

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.
Sebastian Coe

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
Clara Hughes

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.
Debi Thomas

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
Betty Cuthbert

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
Peter Snell

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
Mitch Gaylord

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Medal Translations

medal in Dutch is penning, medaille
medal in German is Medaille, Orden
medal in Italian is medaglia
medal in Portuguese is medalha
medal in Spanish is medalla
medal in Swedish is medalj

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