Quotes About Recognition

I can't think Kansas City enough for embracing me for who I am, my teammates for fighting every single day.

Teammates in all sports love to be acknowledged.

It's a great honor to be named to the Eastern Conference All-Star team as a starter. It's great to earn respect from your teammates and coaches, but to also get that same respect from other players around the league and then the fans - that is special.

I just feel like I'm an established player now, I've been around a long time and my teammates respect me for the way that I play. So, when I do say something, I think they are going to listen to it and respect it.

I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years.

I'll always thank all of the teams I played for from the bottom of my heart because they all helped me grow as a person and a footballer, but the three years I spent in Naples were fantastic. That city gave me everything - my name, maturity, and international recognition. I get very emotional when Naples is mentioned.

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Studies show that people who love their jobs, as well as husbands and wives who are happily married, feel appreciated for what they do and who they are.

When people want to get appreciation and fear they are not, their behavior becomes more attention getting, forcing others to notice them.

Even if you become a very fine actor, if you are inordinately attached to your act, you will notice that you feel empty much of the time, for you will realize that the critics' acclaim and the loud applause from your audience are offered in response to your act rather than to the natural you.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

Your adult life was nothing more than an exercise in forgetting your childhood. Always angry because you didn't get the approval all children need.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

To live the first five years of your life feeling that you are valuable is a wonderful thing and, if you don't have it, then you spend the rest of your life trying to find it. I think my mother realised this and tried to compensate for my father's extreme preoccupation with himself.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

assumption prevents us from acknowledging the full humanity

We do what we do not to be known but for what we know to be known; the chase of fame is an absolute loss of aim.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is now people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb.