Trophy Culture Quotes

You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.

There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do.

We are raising a generation of kids where everyone gets a trophy. But in real life, everyone don't get a trophy.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?

I want to win trophies in the summer and not accolades in the winter.

What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

It's never been about money. I talk about winning trophies throughout my career. That's all I talk about.

I'm kinda not one of those people that likes to put up trophies in my house, because I don't want my mom to come be like, 'Hey, you're full of yourself.'

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

It took me five years to get my first trophy with Ajax but it feels like you have to win a trophy to win more and then they follow. It's just the belief you can win it.

I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

It's all about winning trophies really.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real value in winners and losers, in not everybody getting a trophy - it makes you work hard, you appreciate what it takes, to say, "Why didn't we win?" You shouldn't be condemned for losing.

The problem is, as a company, if you attempt to streamline knowledge or try to limit information you get accused of censorship. So they have to open the gates to any a**hole's opinion. It's like 'oh that opinion is valid'. No, it's not. Not all opinions are valid, you know? It's this idea that every kid gets a trophy. Yeah, but someone won the game!

For me, it is the trophies that are important, not the goals.

Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.