Surprise Win Quotes

I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.

I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.

We were over-whelming underdogs.

When I made 'Weekend,' the idea that 'Moonlight' would win the Oscar would be like, Whaaaaat? Like, that's not going to happen.

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

When I was elected for the first time in '06 I'd never been elected to any body. City councils, school board, community college boards, trustee, water district trustee, class president, ASB president, senior class president - nothing. I was never elected to anything in my life.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.

Winning the Absa Cape Epic already was a wonderful surprise. The World Cup was, for sure, my main goal, but winning all of them was nothing I had planned on.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.