Quotes About Recognition

Most people would snap your arm off to do what I've done, but for me to be able to say my career was successful, I need to have some trophies and some medals in my cabinet when I finish.

It's always lovely to win trophies, have nice things said about you, and be nominated for individual awards. But I feel I can give more - a lot more - to both Lyon and England, and that is definitely my focus.

I would love to win some major trophies, and I would love to win the Ballon d'Or; that would be a perfect career.

Individual trophies, I have quite a lot right now at home, but there will never be enough.

I've never been much for the accolades and for the trophies and for the merits because at one time in my life I kind of got bored of all those.

If we win trophies, it is the most important thing. Of course, it's good for a player to win individual awards and I will never say I don't want to be the best player in the league or I don't want to be the PFA Player of the Season.

Back-to-back Presidents' Trophies, I don't think that happens too often.

I remember how inspiring it was to meet players like Bobby Charlton or Bryan Robson when I was a kid. I still remember Clive Allen showing up when I received a trophy for my Sunday league team.

I remember the chief executive at Southampton after Nicola Cortese thanking me for the platform I left them. That recognition is always nice. That's like winning a trophy for me.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

I got the Clarence Durbin Award, the Equity Award - which is cool because it has a cash prize which is cooler than a trophy, especially when you're a struggling actor, and you can't pay rent.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.

We are raising a generation of kids where everyone gets a trophy. But in real life, everyone don't get a trophy.

Napoli have given me so much. After the initial scepticism, their fans appreciated me. I would like to give them a trophy back.

I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.

Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner.

Winning the European Championship was a great thing for me, and I understood what it was to win a major trophy and what I had been missing.

I've never been a trophy guy.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

It's funny, when guests come over to the house, they want to see my gold medal first and my U.S. Open trophy second.

It's impossible to put into words. When you see that trophy coming towards you in the hands of the officials... the gold becomes more gold, becomes more shiny than you ever thought. You feel the best in the world. I have no other way to put it into words.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.