"Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?"

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"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."

Jesse Owens, American Athlete

Gold,

"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

Gold,

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

Virgil, Roman Poet

Gold, Hunger

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Gold, Value

"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."

Elizabeth I, English Royalty

Gold,

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."

Richard Burton, Welsh Actor

Gold, Man

"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

Cecil Beaton, English Photographer

Gold, Islands, Sky

"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."

Michael Schenker, German Musician

Gold,

"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, American Athlete

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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."

John Keats, English Poet

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"You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed."

Race

"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey."

Famous

"I have a very close friendship with the skaters."

Friendship

"I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better."

Chance

"One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career."

Time

"Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind."

Mind

"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up."

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"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."

"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."

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

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."

"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."

"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."

"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."

Explore more quotes by Eric Heiden

"You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed."

"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey."

"I have a very close friendship with the skaters."

"I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better."

"Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued."

"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."

"They're just big in the eyes of the American public."

"One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career."

"Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind."

"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up."