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«Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.»
Author: Ernie Banks | About: Baseball | Keywords: awarded, awarding, awards
«I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.»
«Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.»
«Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.»
«In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.»
«The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.»
«I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.»
Author: Bette Davis | About: Heart | Keywords: award, awarded, awarding
«NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.»
«In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their name, I accept the award.»
«I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.»