Trophies Quotes - Page 9

• I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'

  Novak Djokovic

  Kids, Mirrors, Tennis

  "Visualizing greatness: How Novak Djokovic rose to the top" by Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Years

  "Cristiano Ronaldo says 'maestro' Sir Alex Ferguson made him less selfish", www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Nothing drives me more than to, hopefully, be able to hand (Steelers chairman Dan Rooney) that fifth (Vince Lombardi) trophy. If I can do that, then I would think, that when he brought me here, I finally accomplished what he wanted me to do.

  Bill Cowher

  Thinking, Hands, Lombardi

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• If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.

  Jose Mourinho

  Beautiful, Jobs, Champions League

  "Mourinho boasts 'After God, me'" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2004.

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• Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something better. Something that will outlast the winningest season, the plushest corner office, the heftiest bonus and the loudest cheers. That something can only be found when we look beyond the final score.

  Tom Osborne

  Cheer, Blessed, Hard Work

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• One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.

  Johan Cruijff

  Hero, Two, Levels

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• Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that

  Alfredo Di Stefano

  Winning, Goal, Reputation

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• Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.

  Noah Webster

  Flags, Republic, Arms

  "Peroration of the reply to Hayne", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 274-75, 1922.

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• It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

  Diane Arbus

  Beautiful, Photography, Tears

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

  Jackie Robinson

  Baseball, Pieces, Break

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• Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hunting, Car, Majestic

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• He put his arms around her. “Well, in my defense, then, whatever I did seemed to work, didn't it?” She sighed. “I suppose.” “You suppose?” “What do you want? A medal?” “For starters. A trophy would be nice, too.” She smiled. “What do you think you're holding right now?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 19, 2012

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• When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

  Dave Grohl

  Focus, Stories, Done

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• What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles.

  Serena Williams

  Singles, Court, Make Me Happy

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• Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!

  Michael Waltrip

  Football, Moving, Weekend

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• It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• I don't look at records, that's not why I'm playing the game. Goals, of course. Every player in my position wants to score goals. But most of all, trophies. My target is always to win trophies for Barcelona, and that will always be my motivation, to win things. Nothing feels better than doing that as a team.

  Lionel Messi

  Motivation, Team, Feel Better

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• Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.

  Lionel Messi

  Country, Argentina, Records

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• The one that sticks out in my mind and has all along was the New York Times piece on Melania Trump.Calling her a mannequin and a trophy wife, which if anybody had ever said that about any - Michelle Obama was a lawyer. But Melania Trump has been a successful businesswoman. She speaks several languages. A mannequin and a trophy wife and it was just - fine, they were allowed to say that about her.

  Megyn Kelly

  New York, Successful, Wife

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do is look to improve but not compete against any record. I want to win trophies and score goals because that's my job as a forward.

  Luis Suarez

  Jobs, Children, Winning

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.

  Serena Williams

  Focus, Needs, Excited

  Source: wwd.com

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• Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real value in winners and losers, in not everybody getting a trophy - it makes you work hard, you appreciate what it takes, to say, "Why didn't we win?" You shouldn't be condemned for losing.

  Billy Crystal

  Daughter, Growing Up, Dad

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Humble, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars.

  Frank Laubach

  Wish, Scar, Lord

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• The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.

  Max Anders

  People, Lord

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