Quotes About Recognition

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.