Quotes About Success

We came from a poor, poor family and for them to see me winning a trophy in front of 90,000 people and getting a medal would be something.

I never won a Vezina Trophy until I won the Olympic gold medal.

When I won my first trophy, it was just a feeling of 'we want more.'

Every team goes into every season aspiring for every trophy.

It's important for a player to win a trophy.

When you have an individual trophy, of course, you are doing really well and deserve the credit but that credit goes to the team because they help you do better and better.

It's always a dream to sign a big contract, but the main dream is winning a championship and holding that trophy up with your teammates.

I would never have dreamed of being able to lift the Premier League trophy.

I don't keep a lot of the trophy stuff. I don't pay attention to it.

The 2002 Premier League was the best trophy for me.

My father's failures inspired me the most and still drive me. He worked for 10 years, but wasn't invited to award functions, forget being nominated. So winning even one trophy is a high for our family.

I came across a picture of myself back at Old Trafford stood next to the Premier League trophy. One of my friends said to me, 'Do you honestly think you will ever win it?' I said I had dreamed about it, but wasn't sure. He said, 'If you don't believe it, it will never happen.' From that moment I said I would believe it could happen one day.

You can't take a person who's never danced in their lives, and are completely terrible, and turn them into the mirrorball trophy holder. That just doesn't happen.

When you've been around a team that has been in the hunt for a Super Bowl and you've been in a locker room that's held up the Vince Lombardi Trophy and you've had that experience, you've had that feeling, nothing comes close.

When you retire, no-one remembers that you finished in the top four. They remember you won a trophy.

I have a trophy case at home.

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights.

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

The pressure will always be there. If we enjoy the pressure, then we will be able to do well, but if we put ourselves under pressure, then we can get into trouble.

There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

My will power has always been very strong. If I want something, I'll get it. I've had no trouble keeping my head on my shoulders, nor do I have any chips on there.

The trouble is that in south cinema, after you become successful at the box office, market realities dictate your choice of films, and it becomes difficult to experiment.