#trophies

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#hate #i #individuals #players #speak

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#almost #been #biggest #club #cups

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#decays #declines #literature #nation

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. ↗

— John Irving

#match #old #reasons #say #trophies

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#aim #beating #big #biggest #close

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily

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

— John Krasinski

#amazing #experiences #feel #had #i

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#buy #everything #good #i #i am

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#day #everyone #keep #least #make