Achievement Recognition Quotes

It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.

If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to understand. It's so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.

People who have been watching my performances, my films, have been a big support. If they are proud of my filmography and work, I am proud of what I have done.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

I'm getting some really good work. And because I'm delivering what they want, more good work is coming my way.

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I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

I know I'm a really good coach.

The way I see it, the prize money is a reflection of my on-court performance, but the sponsorships are something more personal, connected more to people and fans, and to my values.

On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.

I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.

I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.

Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But somewhere along in the 28 years, it got lost.