Phil Rizzuto Quotes

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.

I'm not hesitating on that. I am a Hall of Famer.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

I never went out looking for glory.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

To be the best you have to win trophies.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

Individual awards are important, but I am not obsessed with them.

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

I am humbled to be selected as a TiE Star recipient and to be included among such an esteemed group of true innovators and intrepid entrepreneurs.

If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.

All I want are titles and nothing less.

I am very proud to join the Hall of Fame.

I am thankful for this title of champion emeritus and proud I never lost my title.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.