Individual Recognition Quotes

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

First Team All-Defense, that was great, that was one of my goals coming into this league, and I've got that a couple times. But First Team All-NBA, that's bigger than a lot of things; that's bigger than being an All-Star.

I think when you have a National Championship Game, a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a World Series, I don't see why there is any reason to pick out one individual as the MVP because it is about a team winning a championship. Maybe that best explains what I believe in at the core in my work as a broadcaster.

Lots of people in aggregate might know who I am, but they are spread around across the country and the world.

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

If things work out for you as a team, then there are individual things that happen for you. But if you're not talented enough as a team, its hard for people to give you the recognition.

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Sure, it's nice to get appreciation from the outside. But generally, I don't think personal accolades are appropriate in football.

To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

I'd rather have 10 Super Bowl trophies and no MVPs.

I'm not trying to win individual awards.

When you step out of the team environment you think, 'Wow, I'm England captain and we've just won the Ashes.'

Football is all about winning things as a team but it's also important to pick up individual awards along the way.

Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.

I don't need the Ballon d'Or to know I'm the best. It matters more to some players

When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

I'm a person, and everybody wants to be an all-star. Nobody wants to just be a role-player. I've thought about it. But the number one goal is to keep winning, so I'm more focused on that than being an all-star, honestly.

I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.

If, say, a striker knows that scoring 30 goals in a season will lead to them winning a prestigious award then they will try that little bit harder because, regardless of what players may say, individual recognition on the world stage is important.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

I don't want to work with anyone who has not sat down with me and has gotten to know me. I don't want you writing for who you think Jennifer is or the public persona of because that's not who I am. It's my shell, it's the brand, it's the celebrity, but it's not the person.