Top 202 Trophy Quotes

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

I have a trophy case at home.

I didn’t win a trophy with Everton, but that time is just as special as my playing career at United.

I’m keen to get into trophy hunting, no animal in particular, but a big safari in Africa would be great.

My target is winning trophies. It doesn’t matter which kind of trophy it is, I want to win all of them.

At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses, and on paper, I kind of succeeded: I was the first pick in the draft. And with that, I inherited this big shiny trophy that I carried around, and it had one word engraved on it – anxiety.

The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

Everest is not real climbing. It’s rich people climbing. It’s a trophy on the wall, and they’re done… When I say I wish I’d never gone, I really mean that.

When you win a Grammy… you’re thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, ‘This is what we think of you.’ And that’s why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.

There’s no trophy that will amount to someone trusting you with a sizable portion of their movie, and that’s pretty cool.

The first time I carried drinks was during the 2004 Champions Trophy. It was a wet outfield and I was running with the drinks and I couldn’t stop myself and just went sliding into Sourav Ganguly, who was giving a team chat in the huddle.

We haven’t achieved really big things yet with the U.S., so I think everybody wants to be the first one, and that’s why everybody is so motivated to develop yourself and to win the first big trophy for the country.

Our country craves for the trophy of the African Cup of Nations. I am craving for such a trophy in my career.

Guardiola took the decision to not play me in the DFB-Pokal final. He did not want me to win the trophy as top scorer, so he did not let me play during the end of the season. It was not really so important for me, but I felt it was a lack of respect towards me.

Lifting a major trophy in front of an empty stadium would be a very strange feeling. But then you’d rather do that than not play at all.

I am truly honored and humbled to have been selected as the co-winner for the 2020 Lou Marsh Trophy.

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

It’s just about keeping the momentum going, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s Champions League or Premier League or whatever trophy you’re going for, you’ve got to focus on the opponent that lies ahead.

Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.

Gold teeth was just something that was popular down in Texas and around the country for a while. Growing up, it was something that you would do. You get a gold chain or watch, or grill, it was a status symbol. Like a trophy: I made it, or I made some money.

In my country, we say that football is like a huge plate of food. Well, I want to eat everything because I want to win every trophy I can for City.

It is about winning a trophy. It doesn’t make any difference to me who lifts it; I would just rather win.

We want to compete for every trophy at home and in Europe.

The Heisman Trophy is such a special award.

Always, always, for a team like City, it’s difficult to go for a season without winning one trophy.

If you ask my one regret, it is that I could not bring those City fans a trophy. That’s the only thing that leaves me a little sad.

I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy – even if you don’t get to parade silverware.

Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.

Ask any batsman what gives him maximum satisfaction. It’s scoring runs, whether it’s Ranji Trophy or any form of the game. When you get back to your room, knowing that you have scored a hundred, it gives you satisfaction.

We want to be in the Finals and hold that trophy up.

The Carling Cup may not be quite the same level as the FA Cup, but it is the first trophy of the season, so you definitely want to be in it.

Success for Manchester United is winning the Premier League, adding another trophy and having another good cup run is another one.

My relationships are helped because of all the success I’ve had, but I’m only as useful as the idea I have today or tomorrow. Otherwise, I’m just a trophy.

Honestly, I didn’t expect my call-up. I was just playing my game and will continue giving my best. Rest will be taken care by selectors. If they think I am good enough, they will take me in. Champions Trophy is a very big stage and there will be lot more opportunities for me in the coming future.

I’m always pretty cautious when people say that one player could single-handedly help his side to a trophy.

I’m not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

Newman and I were friends. We were great teammates, and he needs to check his trophy case on that Daytona 500 trophy I helped him get years ago.

I grew without having a thing about the Ballon d’Or. When I was young, Ballon d’Or was also given to the European players. I didn’t grow with this ambition. I think it’s a personal trophy and football is a team game.

Once the trophy has been lifted, and the fans have all stopped applauding – there’s the potential for a player to feel their lowest. It is at this point when we need the support the most, when we’re simply human beings.

I remember the chief executive at Southampton after Nicola Cortese thanking me for the platform I left them. That recognition is always nice. That’s like winning a trophy for me.

The SheBelieves was my big moment, my big breakthrough. We had to get on that platform, hold that trophy, and have that medal around our necks.

With Harry, we all hope his goals and his performances will merit a trophy one way or another during his career, but Tottenham means the world to him.

I knew I was going to be a pro golfer from the age of 12, when I qualified for the Carris Trophy, which is for under-18s. That was when I thought I was OK at golf. I had no clue about how difficult the game actually is at that age of course – I was blissfully unaware of all the hard work ahead.

If you had to point to anything, it’s when you’ve had as much success as we’ve had and are so close to winning a Super Bowl, at some stage you have an opportunity to think the next move, even if it’s not consistent with all your previous moves, will be the one that gives you the chance to win the Lombardi Trophy.

There’s no better feeling than winning a trophy in front of your fans when they’re celebrating.

I don’t think you need motivation to win a league or a trophy. It’s every footballer’s dream. It’s why you play football. You enjoy and love the game, but you play to win and be the best.

In one year I won two titles – one being the Premier League. I have a trophy at home that not many people have and in possibly the most competitive league in the world.

Too many times I have had to sacrifice a trophy or the chance of winning one because the owners have said you have to stay in the Premier League at all costs.

There’s a lot of fun things about this sport, but trying to hoist that trophy at the end is what we all play for.

I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn’t looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

For me, I think the Champions League is the biggest trophy, but playing for your country in the World Cup… it’s hard to choose.

I am absolutely satisfied with my experience in English football because despite the two dismissals it allowed me to win more than one trophy and to live in a different environment from Italy, where I feel very happy.

I would definitely say the Nidahas Trophy was a life-changing experience as a cricketer for me.

One must just keep having good seasons with many great matches, whether one is with the club or the French national side. For me, this must be a player’s goal in his head, even if it’s an individual trophy, and the first thought must be on the collective.

I want a trophy, and that is why I came to Arsenal.

My national team experience was a hugely positive one. I had four years and we won the only trophy on offer and then we qualified for the World Cup, so I think I completed the mission.

Games don’t come much bigger than playing the title holders with the chance to win the trophy yourselves.