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Quotes About Recognition

There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.
~ Lisa Leslie
It's a huge honour to be named player of the year... and I want to thank everyone who voted for me.
~ N'Golo Kante
This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.
~ Allen Iverson
In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
~ Julius Erving
When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.
~ Thomas Middleditch
It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.
~ George Vecsey
I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desirable Man of 2012. Frankly, I have no idea how the desirability quotient is arrived at. If it is just drop dead good looks, then I have to thank God and my parents for it.
~ Arjun Rampal
I'm in a very unique position in that I got to participate in the Food Network by contest. That's long gone, being voted on, but I don't forget where it came from, and I don't forget the people who worked to put me here.
~ Guy Fieri
I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?
~ Su-chin Pak
It means a lot to be voted for awards by the fans and your team-mates.
~ Jordan Pickford
I was twice voted best left-back in the world.
~ Patrice Evra
Don't get me wrong, I would love to be voted into the Hall of Fame. But if I don't get in, that's not the end of the world. I am surrounded by my loved ones, and being with them, going through this journey with them, makes me extremely happy.
~ Cris Carter
To get the PFA Player of the Year is a fantastic honour. It's the highest honour you can get because it's voted by your fellow peers.
~ Virgil van Dijk
In fact, when I was voted for the sexiest woman for two years, it was a fabulous feeling.
~ Pooja Bedi
Any time you can be voted a captain by your peers is always a great thing.
~ George Kittle
I've had a great career; they've put me in the Hall of Fame, and the WBC voted me the best super-middleweight with Joe Calzaghe, yet all I wanted was Southern Area champion. Maybe a shot at the British title.
~ Nigel Benn
Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
~ Cass Sunstein
I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
~ Ed Koch
I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing my face next to Jake Gyllenhaal's.
~ Jeff Bauman
I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents.
~ Gurinder Chadha
People seem to know more about me than I do.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
I don't want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.
~ Rich Brian
Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.
~ Maverick Carter