#gold

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#difficulty #doing #going #gold #gold medal

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#axiom #done #eyes #forgotten #front

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! ↗

— Virgil

#compel #dost #gold #hearts #human

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road. ↗

— TobyMac

#comes #coverage #get #gold #i

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#golden #hid #hinges #inside #key

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#everything #felt #glory #gold #hands

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#did #gold #got #great #hats

I want to win a gold medal in London. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#gold medal #i #london #medal #want

I don't know where my first gold medal is. ↗

— Shaun White

#gold #gold medal #i #know #medal

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more. ↗

— Emily Watson

#back #bad #career #early #forget