“It's kind of funny. I was joking with Hines about that. I told him it's the consolation prize for us. We didn't think it was rigged, that they just gave it to us. I was just messing with him. It just shows you what kind of players we have on this team. I think with the MVP, it doesn't really matter what other people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you. Obviously, our teammates think very highly of us.”
Casey Hampton
“I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.”
“Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety”
George Bernard Shaw
“Knowing that they think that much of me makes it extra special. It's kind of a consolation prize for me.”
“In life we all are and have to be fighters, whether to be a street fighter or a prized fighter is purely our choice.”
Kiran Radhakrishnan
“Success is not being rich, but finding content in carrying out the thing that you'd give up your most prized possession to do.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“Lindbergh made the flight to win a prize, not as a personal objective. I really saw the power of that prize written out for me in hard numbers: Nine teams spent [a combined] $400,000 to win that $25,000. It occurred to me that what space really needed was a prize to compel folks to build the ships that would take the rest of us there.”
Peter Diamandis