Quotes About Recognition

Inter did not treat me well. They did not recognise my value despite me winning the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

There are a lot of people who help you during your career. When you win a World Cup, it's normal that you think about them, because they help you to reach this level.

If you win the Champions League, you become known across the globe, but the World Cup has always thrown up new stars and developments.

What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals in a year. There is no need to win a World Cup to certify that talent.

The World Cup has its own space that needs to be respected.

I was on a high after the Under-17 World Cup, with the manager talking about me a bit.

When you're a player and you win the World Cup and other titles you don't get the chance to enjoy the moment because of the media scrum. You end up getting tired of it. But when the years go by and you look back on it all, then you understand just what it is that you achieved, that we achieved.

I became an India player in January 2009 and was therefore paid Rs 40 lakhs. However, in my contract, my category continued as a 2008 World Cup Under-19 player and my contract continued at Rs 20 lakh.

After I made my comeback in 2002 and won the Jaws Tow-In World Cup, the eyes of the surfing world were on me in a way they'd never been before.

Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.

The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

It's easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record as the most-awarded female act of all time, with over 415 major recognitions during her career. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive number one songs.

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

It ain't nothin' till I call it.

I realised one thing - you cannot work on your own follies till the time you accept that you have them in the first place.

The one place I always get recognised for my voice - and this is the God's honest truth - is when I'm at the till in Topman paying for my clothes. Every time.

When 'SOTY 2' got delayed by a year, my dad actually didn't even congratulate me till the film released because that's how fickle the industry is. That's how dispensable people are.

Awards have lost their charm. The experience of getting an award has completely dissolved. Awards functions start in December and go on till April and are distributed for anything and everything. Categories like Best Jodi, Best Dressed Celebrity are all redundant.

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Till this day, people stop me in the supermarket, and they're like, 'Oh, we're so proud of you!'

My parents were never into films, but I hope to make them proud with my work some day. In any case, in Bollywood, your surname matters only till your first, second, or third film at most. Beyond that, you are on your own.

Honestly, till the time each and every movie-goer knows about me, I will not stop doing multiple films a year.

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.