Quotes About Award

I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.

I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

I'd like to win Rookie of the Year.

That's the first goal I have, to be Rookie of the Year.

I won an ASCAP award two years in a row - that was sick.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

I don't know about you, but for me, if I got to present any kind of award, I'm shaking in my pants.

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up for Album of the Year, that's when I started to be like, 'What in the world, this is crazy!' That one really got me in a pretty different way.

When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.

I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

In high school, I was voted 'Most Humorous' in my senior class.

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

When it comes to awards and things like that - I don't know why - I just always sit in amazement and never really expect it.

I think the PGA Award, when we won that, was so shocking to me. I thought, 'Absolutely no way.' I was barely listening when they were announcing it.

I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team, in 30 years, has been able to do.

The greatest award is the appreciation of the people.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.

It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.