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It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. -- Manfred von Richthofen
I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies. -- Jose Mourinho
So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake. -- Bobby Orr
I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything. -- Demetri Martin
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood. -- Alex Ferguson
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. -- George Eliot
This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously. -- Steven Gerrard
My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. -- John Irving
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them. -- Jose Mourinho
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. -- Tom Wolfe
Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies. -- Ryan Giggs
Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement. -- Dennis Bergkamp
Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one. -- Dennis Bergkamp
Life is a game and true love is a trophy. -- Rufus Wainwright
What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy? -- Glenn Beck
The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon. -- Jacob Peterson
You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time. -- Jose Mourinho
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. -- Banksy
Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something. -- John Krasinski
It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me. -- Bjorn Borg
Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling. -- Wayne Rooney
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work. -- John Thorn
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. -- John Cheever
I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup. -- Hermann Maier
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them -- William Hazlitt
At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships. -- Bear Bryant
I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies? -- Dennis Bergkamp
I'm just tryna stay alive and take care of my people And they don't have no award for that Trophies, trophies -- Drake
Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day. -- Jim Courier
Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those. -- Roy Baumeister
Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know you did it, that's what keeps you going, you know? Success is illusive. -- Rodney Mullen
You don't give out trophies for losing. Trophies for sucking. That's a communist idea. You don't get a trophy for losing. You get a piece of pizza and you shut up. Trophies for losing? What the hell happened to us? -- Christopher Titus
I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever. -- Pete Carroll
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain. -- John Denham
What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles. -- Serena Williams
I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country. -- Didier Drogba
Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. -- Rachel Bilson
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
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time. -- Pat Metheny
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war. -- Peter Abelard
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me. -- Maria Sharapova
I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that. -- Demetri Martin
I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked. -- Kevin Mitnick
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. -- Michael Leunig
If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you? -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Dead men never pick up their trophies. -- Michael Weisskopf
Winning trophies has made me put on weight -- Rafael Benitez
Participation trophies are the soul herpes of a generation. -- Christopher Titus
All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle. -- Julius Meier-Graefe
The money will go but the trophies will always be there. -- Phil Heath
I don't put a great deal of stock in art trophies. -- Nick Offerman
The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars. -- Frank Laubach
Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that -- Alfredo Di Stefano
If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can. -- Alexander Ovechkin
I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment. -- Cary Fukunaga
The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them. -- Max Anders
Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force. -- Renee Lawless
We care about how many players you develop rather than how many trophies you win. -- Claudio Reyna
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. -- David McCullough
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. -- Thomas Browne
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be. -- Fred Bear
We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars. -- Mark Lowry
Everything to me is about team football, and if we keep winning Super Bowl trophies, I'll be fine. -- Justin Tuck
I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. -- James Russell Lowell
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. -- Henry Fuseli
As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies. -- Don Yaeger
You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies. -- Zach Galifianakis
I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson]. -- Paul Gascoigne
My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them. -- Jose Mourinho
I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now! -- Mia Hamm
There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf. -- Anton du Beke
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
I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that. -- Randy Moss
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. -- John Webster
Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. -- Rachel Bilson
Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was. -- Martha Rosler
I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty. -- Elizabeth Taylor
What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it? -- Jerry Seinfeld
There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies. -- Alex Ferguson
There are only four trophies available to win at the start of every season and there will be some big teams this year who won't win one at all. -- Gary Neville
We are on top at the moment but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work. -- Jose Mourinho
Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid. -- Dave Pirner
I don't consider myself as the best player in the world. I'm not obsessed with individual titles. I'm much more interested in being part of a team which wins trophies. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults. -- Byron Nelson
You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing. -- Thierry Henry
So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown. -- George Bennard
I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it. -- Curtis Jackson
It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems. -- Charles Ferguson
Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. -- Oscar Arias
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
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
When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices. -- John Wooden
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine. -- Anthony Bourdain
It was hard walking around the pitch... You do that when you win trophies. The fans were throwing flags on and that was hard to take, something which put a lump in your throat. -- Darren Fletcher
And personally I will say that Amy Poehler deserves about a thousand trophies and so one is a good start, and I'm hoping this is the first of a thousand. That's my personal hope. -- Michael Schur
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. -- Dennis Bergkamp

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