Quotes About Accolades

I have all the accolades, all the experience, all the knowledge you could possibly want from a WWE number one draft pick.

I don't need any accolades. I don't like being famous. But I can always tell people I used to defend guys like Kevin Durant, and they respect my defense.

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

I don't trust too much in personal trophies.

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 you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they'll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

I am already in a couple Hall of Fames, like the Michigan Hall of Fame and the Dan Gable Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, so my accolades speak for themselves. Let's just say I'm not losing any sleep over any Hall of Fame induction.

This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered a successful game, whereas a game with superb gameplay and a laughable story can see its spine bend from the weight of many accolades—and those who praise the latter game will not be wrong.

The goal is to win a championship, but when you win and you play pretty well, and you start hearing 'All-Star' and 'Sixth Man.' That's really unbelievable.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Individual honors come with team success.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

If I had a nickel every time someone asked me if I was going into the Hall of Fame, then... I could buy a lot of stuff.

When citizens are always performing for each other, they expect accolades and instant psychic rewards, even if they have not earned them, and they become angry and resentful if they do not get them.

Awards are merely badges of mediocrity.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive – I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'

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

The great and good receive their accolades. But love can surround in glory the lives of little people. Pam Brown

I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.