"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."

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"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."

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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

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"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold."

Audrey Meadows, American Actress

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"I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me."

Picabo Street, American Athlete

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"There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation."

John Buchanan Robinson, American Politician

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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"

Charles Anthon, American Writer

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

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

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"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."

David Ricardo, British Economist

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"There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold."

Coleman Young, American Politician

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"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."

Parenting

"If you never give up, you'll be successful."

Success

"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."

Man

"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."

Society

"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."

Work

"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning."

Winning

"You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one."

Man

"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."

Being

"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."

Confidence

"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."

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