Quotes About Prestige

If you play for a team like Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, or PSG, the aim is always to win the Champions League.

Everybody is talking about the Triple Crown, but I want to win the Open. That is my aim.

The Champions League is maybe the most prestigious competition in the game and if you don't win it, as much as we are a great team, you feel like there's always something missing.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.'

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Now I can always be called 'Emmy winner Regina King.' I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they're announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.

The tag of a 'National Award winner' earned me a lot of respect from a lot of people. I like that in a way.

Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.

I think winning at Wimbledon's huge. This is the biggest tournament in tennis for so many different reasons. You can see the history around the grounds. The Village around you, everyone lives for it.

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

Once a film is selected at Cannes, the crossover becomes very easy, thanks to the prestige and dignity it gains at Cannes.

Liverpool are one of the greats in Europe, and being able to be part of the history of such a great club is gratifying to me.

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the biggest, the best, the greatest. My father, over the years, has bought some of the best mansions of the world. It's just something he loves.