While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.
I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star.
My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.
In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
I know some people expected me to be a Ballon d'Or winner.
[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.
The Heisman is often a career award. Chris Weinke, Michael Vick, Eric Crouch and Drew Brees have all had a more than one great year.
I am beyond blessed and humbled to be named the Paul Hornung Award winner.
In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
To the Heisman voters, I'm truly honored and humbled to be the 2016 Heisman Trophy winner.
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.
It is an incredible honor to be named the Colts' Walter Payton Man of the Year.
From someone who has won five Ballons d'Or you can learn a lot.
I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.
To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
You have to give the Ballon d'Or to the best player in the world at that time. Any differences between what the players are like as individuals should not affect who is chosen for a personal award.
I surprised the hell out of myself when I got MVP for the 2018 All Star Legends Celebrity game. I had no idea I was going to get that.
Anything like having a good season at home for the club, or going as far as you can and having a great Champions League, has its repercussions when it comes to the Balon D'Or winner.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo, who has won two Ballons d'Or with Real Madrid, receives whistles from the Bernabeu.
